June 18th the president signed a declaration of war against Britain.
The day of ratification for the treaty of Ghent was February 1st.
The act o f seizing shipments for public use or impressing into public service is known as Impressment.
The war of 1812 was also called the second war of Independence.
TheOrders in Council required neutral countries to obtain a license from its authorities before trading with France.
Plessy v. Ferguson<span>, 163 U.S. 537 (1896), was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court issued in 1896. It upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities as long as the segregated facilities were equal in quality – a doctrine that came to be known as "separate but equal".</span>
So that if we won the Revolutionary War we'd already have a set of principal's for us and our Government to follow for years and years.
Initially, in the 1948 war for its own independence, Israel secured the territory that the United Nations had proposed as land for a Jewish state.
In the Six Day War of 1967, Israel gained control of the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula in defeating Egypt. The Sinai eventually was returned to Egypt. Gaza became an occupied territory, with the Israeli military supervising the Palestinian-populated region, until 2005 when Israeli Defense Forces withdrew from Gaza. (Now Israel enforces blockades against the Gaza region.)
Also in the Six Day War, Israel gained control of the West Bank, which continues to have an Israeli presence in it as well as a Palestinian government.
And in the Six Day War, Israel gained control of two-thirds of the Golan Heights region overlooking Lake Tiberias, which Israel continues to occupy, citing security concerns in protecting itself.
