From the May 28, 2013, Niagara Advance.ca. by Melissa Mangelsen.
This was held May 25-27th at the Fort George Barracks. This is a battle the Americans won and resulted in the surrender of the fort back in May 1813. Some regarded it as one of the most fierce fighting during the war.
Kevin Merman of Clarkson, Michigan, was one of the several hundred re-enactors who participated. He lamented, "There are four key battles in the War of 1812, and they're not even teaching it in our schools." I wish the article had had the names of those four battles, but it is likely that this was one of them.
As far as not teaching about it, this is one teacher who would have taught the war and its key battles, but never got much past 1800 when I taught the subject (I was supposed to teach from the beginning to 1860).
Sorry, Kevin. --Brock-Perry
2012 marks the 200th anniversary of America's "Forgotten War," the War of 1812 that took place over three years, 1812 to 1815.
Battle of New Orleans.
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