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The museum contains furniture and antiques from the Federal period as well as items from the Pickersgill family. [3] A supplemental 12,600-square-foot (1,170 m 2) museum was constructed to the rear next to Pickersgill's home. [4] This museum houses exhibits on the War of 1812 and the Battle of Baltimore.
The Battle of Baltimore (September 12–15, 1814) took place between British and American forces in the War of 1812. American forces repulsed sea and land invasions off the busy port city of Baltimore, Maryland, and killed the commander of the invading British forces. The British and Americans first met at the Battle of North Point. [9]
During the Battle of Baltimore a month after opening, Rembrandt Peale, his wife, and seven children spent the night in the museum hoping that the British military would think the museum was their home and spare the building. [6] The fame of Peale's museum was such that it was occasionally described as simply the "Baltimore Museum."
The Battle Monument, located in Battle Monument Square on North Calvert Street between East Fayette and East Lexington Streets in Baltimore, Maryland, commemorates the Battle of Baltimore, with the British fleet of the Royal Navy's bombardment of Fort McHenry, the Battle of North Point, southeast of the city in Baltimore County on the Patapsco Neck peninsula, and the stand-off on the eastern ...
Fort McHenry is a historical American coastal pentagonal bastion fort on Locust Point, now a neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland.It is best known for its role in the War of 1812, when it successfully defended Baltimore Harbor from an attack by the British navy from Chesapeake Bay on September 13–14, 1814.
The monument features a gilded statue of Lady Columbia waving a flag on a pedestal of four stone columns, surrounded on two sides by gilded reliefs depicting the Battle of Baltimore. At the pedestal's base is a bronze statue of Francis Scott Key standing in a rowboat carved from stone. [1]
American Dime Museum - museum of curiosities, closed in 2006 [8] [9] Antique Toy Museum, Baltimore - closed in 2012 [10] [11] B. Olive Cole Pharmacy Museum - was located in the Kelly building at the Maryland Pharmacists Association [12] Baltimore City Life Museums - consortium of historic homes, building and sites (folded 1997)
Star Spangled Banner flag on display at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, c. 1964. The Star-Spangled Banner, or the Great Garrison Flag, was the garrison flag that flew over Fort McHenry in Baltimore Harbor during the naval portion of the Battle of Baltimore during the War of 1812.