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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.
After nightfall, Cochrane ordered a landing to be made by small boats to the shore just west of the fort, away from the harbor opening on which the fort's defense was concentrated. He hoped that the landing party might slip past Fort McHenry and draw Smith's army away from the main British land assault on the city's eastern border.
The present Fort Washington was built on the site of the destroyed Fort Washington in the early 1820s as part of the Third System. [13] Among the many important and historic documents lost in the British burning of the Library of Congress were the plans to the first Fort Washington (begun as Fort Warburton) and other Second System forts.
During the nearly 25-hour bombardment of Fort McHenry, commencing before dawn on September 13 until the morning of September 14, 1814, Armistead alone knew the fort's magazine was not bombproof. When a shell crashed through the roof of the magazine but failed to explode, Armistead ordered the powder barrels cleared out and placed under the rear ...
Bellefields Plantation in Croom, Prince George's County, Maryland where Frederick Hall aka William Williams spent most his life a slave, photograph from 1936. Frederick Hall was born on a plantation owned by Benjamin Oden in Prince George's County in 1793, he lived on the plantation until his escape in early 1814; despite the standing British offer of freedom and land to any escaped slave who ...
Dr. Aseem Malhotra, a cardiologist and public health campaigner based in London, says Americans' foods are fueling chronic diseases. He shares his warnings and tips with Fox News Digital.
James McHenry (November 16, 1753 – May 3, 1816) was a Scotch-Irish American military surgeon, statesman, and a Founding Father of the United States. McHenry was a signer of the United States Constitution from Maryland , initiated the recommendation for Congress to form the Navy , and was the eponym of Fort McHenry .
Authorities have confirmed that the bear responsible for attacking a Pennsylvania man had rabies. A resident of the town of Jim Thorpe was “aggressively approached” by a black adult male bear ...