The Series of Improbable Events That Gave Us ‘The Star Spangled Banner’
On the 200th anniversary of the national anthem, a look at the forgotten—and arguably awesome—War of 1812
Poor War of 1812. As far as American history goes, it's in a pretty tight race with the Mexican-American War and the Spanish-American War for the top spot on the "least remembered" list. Scholars who write about the conflict lead with the fact that it's forgotten. Under the somewhat puzzling Wikipedia entry for "Forgotten Wars," the War of 1812 sits alongside the First and Second Barbary Wars, the Laotian Civil War, and
