Battle of Bladensburg – August 1814 This is the seventh of a series of articles telling how Alexandrians were affected 200 years ago by the War of 1812. For earlier articles in this series, go ...

Sam’s Club plans to build a new store and gas station in Katy with construction starting in August.

City Hall says it is engaging with the owners of the historic bonded warehouse on Cork City's landmark Custom House site amid ...

During the last days of August 1814, the boys watched as many of their neighbors prepared to flee the village in anticipation of the invasion. The greatest army in the world was soon to be at the ...

The league phase draw for the 2024/25 UEFA Champions League takes place from 18:00 CET on Thursday 29 August. As the first under the competition's new 36-team single league format, it is an ...

The publication of “Until August,” the latest — and last — book from Colombian writer and literary icon Gabriel García Márquez, has been marked by controversy since it was announced ...

Three years before his death, in August 1814, when Napoleon was an exile in Elba and Wellington was the British ambassador in Paris, Brewster, then aged thirty-two, visited Rochon in Paris, and in ...

The War of 1812 wasn’t going well for the Americans. We know that much. Just a few months earlier, in August 1814, British forces had sacked Washington and torched the White House, sending ...

This is his story. U.S. Secretary of State James Monroe stood on a Maryland bluff one Saturday morning in August 1814.

LIFESTYLE On this day in history, August 24, 1814, British troops ransacked, torched White House and Capitol After the shocking attack, 'a resilient nation emerged stronger and more unified' ...