War of 1812 veteran Shadrack Byfield's second book describes a grittier life story—and a hook for a hand.

A musket ball shattered Byfield ’s left forearm in 1814, nine days after the bloody nighttime fight at Lundy’s Lane, a ...

Archival discoveries including a 19th-century autobiography transform our understanding of Shadrach Byfield, an English ...

History buffs are no doubt familiar with the story of Shadrack Byfield, a rank-and-file British redcoat who fought during the ...

Saturday, January 17, the County Genealogical Society will host a program featuring Brian Rhinehart, a professional ...

An artist's representation of Napoleon's forces trudging through snow during the ruler's ill-fated military campaign of 1812. Historians have long known that as hundreds of thousands of Napoleon ...

The War of 1812 was a major conflict between the United States and Great Britain for control of the Northern Frontier. Often ...

“The War of 1812” is an easy handle for students who struggle with dates. But the name is a misnomer that makes the conflict sound like a mere wisp of a war that began and ended the same year. In ...