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After 732 posts  and 4,135 tweets we come to the end of 1812.  I want to thank all the readers of this blog. I also want to thank t...

On December 31 1812, in St Petersburg, John Quincy Adams offers up a prayer as 1812 comes to an end. He writes in his   diary:  31st. I...

On December 31 1812, Lord Byron writes to Lady Melbourne: My dear L y.  M. – – I have received several epistles from C. which I ...

On December 31 1812, President Madison writes to acknowledge the resignation of his Secretary of War, Paul Hamilton. Dear Sir,—I ha...

On December 31 1812, Major General Sheaffe, in Fort George, writes to Lord Bathurst, in London, to update him on the status of the war ...

After dinner a rubber at Lamb's; then went with Lamb and Burney to Rickman's. Hazlitt there. Cards, as usual, were our amusement...

On December 29 1812, the USS Constitution engages and defeats the HMS Java off the coast of Brazil. The Constitution suffers 34 men kil...