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| Fort Dearborn | This fort's garrison (modern Chicago) was massacred August 1812 |
| William Wells | Native Americans chiefs ate his heart to obtain his courage |
| William Hull | US general who surrendered Detroit without a fight |
| Pigeon Roost Massacre | Hoosier settlers were massacred by Native Americans, perhaps for killing a sacred white buffalo |
| Fort Wayne | This Indiana fort held out despite the incompetant Captain James Rhea |
| Fort Harrison | This indiana fort was in modern Terre Haute |
| Zachary Taylor | US commander at Fort Harrison who held out against long odds |
| Queenston Heights | New York militia refused to cross into Canada and watched US regulars lose |
| Mississinewa | William Henry Harrison attacks the winter camp of the Miami tribe, suffers heavy casualties |
| River Raisin | Wounded Kentuckians were reportedly massacred by British general Henry Procter's Indian allies |
| "Remember the Raisin" | American battle cry |
| York (Toronto) | capital of Canada during the War of 1812, captured and looted by US |
| Zebulon Pike | American general killed by falling debris at Fort York |
| Battle of Put-In Bay | US wins control over Lake Erie |
| Oliver Hazard Perry | US naval leader who won Battle of Put-in Bay |
| Don't Give Up the Ship | Oliver Hazard Perry's flag at Put-In Bay |
| "We have Met the Enemy and He is ours" | Perry's after action report at Put-In Bay |
| Battle of the Thames | Tecumseh is killed in this battle |
| Richard M. Johnson | Kentucky militiaman credited with killing Tecumseh |
| forlorn hope | small force which is sacrificed to draw the enemy's fire |
| Chrysler's Farm | British and Canadians ambush Americans at a river rapids |
| Fort Mims Massacre | This began the Creek War |
| Red Sticks | war faction of the Creek tribe |
| Andrew Jackson | became an American hero at Horsehoe Bend |
| Old Hickory | Andrew Jackson's nickname |
| Horseshoe Bend | Andrew Jackson traps and nearly annihilates the Red Stick Creeks |
| Jacob Brown | New York militia general who took over for James Wilkinson in 1814 |
| Winfield Scott | Became a new US brigadier general in May 1814 |
| Chippewa | British mistake US troops in gray coats for militia |
| Lundy's Lane | Bloodiest battle of the war of 1812 |
| Robert Ross | British general who burned Washington, DC but was killed at Baltimore |
| Battle of Bladensburg | US defeat at this battle led to the burning of Washington, DC |
| Fort McHenry | this fort guarded Baltimore harbor |
| Battle of North Point | Maryland miltia killed British general Robert Ross |
| Battle of Lake Champlain | US navy captures the British fleet and stops the last British invasion of the US |
| Thomas Macdonough | Hero of the Battle of Lake Champlain, spun on his cables and achieved victory |
| New Orleans | US inflicts enormous casualties on the British in this 1815 battle after the war was officially over |
| Sir Edward Pakenham | British general killed at New Orleans |
| Jean Lafitte | Pirate leader who loaned men and equipment to the US at New Orleans |
| Thomas ap Catesby Jones | US naval leader on Mississippi River at battle of New Orleans |
| Free Trade and Sailor's Rights | Flag flown by the USS Chesapeake |
| David Porter | US naval leader who raided British whaling fleet in the South Pacific |
