The War of 1812 is an often overlooked war in comparison to other conflicts in American history, but it was still an important one with numerous causes.

After noticing that the practice of documenting war was fading, the veteran aimed to capture insights from battles and make them available to scholars.

Gurkhas have served in the British Army since the two-year Anglo-Nepalese War ended in 1816, which saw the British East India Company fight the city state of Gorkha in what is now western Nepal.

These shots heard around the world were fired by the Massachusetts Militia against a large contingent of the British Army, the world’s pre-eminent professional military of a growing empire.