Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
In 1940, 9,744 immigrants from Germany lived in Baltimore. These immigrants comprised 16% of the city's foreign-born white population. [ 4 ] In total, 23,889 people of German birth or descent lived in the city, comprising 17.1% of the foreign-stock white population.
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.
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 Baltimore riots of 1812 were a series of violent riots that occurred in the months of June and July 1812 in Baltimore, Maryland.The riots were in response to a series of anti-war articles written in a Federalist newspaper by federalist statesman Alexander Contee Hanson after the United States had declared war on United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland during the War of 1812.
Map of Baltimore, 1867. 1800 - Population: 26,504 people. [7] 1803 Fort McHenry built. [8] Dispensary incorporated. [5] 1806 - St. Mary's College and Theological Seminary incorporated. 1807 University of Maryland founded. Baltimore Museum established. [9] Baltimore Circulating Library in business. [10] 1809 - Joseph Robinson's Circulating ...
Defenders Day is a longtime legal holiday on September 12, in the U.S. state of Maryland, in the City of Baltimore and surrounding Baltimore County. [1] It commemorates the successful defense of the city of Baltimore on September 12-13-14, 1814 from an invading British force during the War of 1812, an event which led to the writing of the words of a poem, which when set to music a few days ...
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 ...
German-Jewish culture in Baltimore (9 P) Pages in category "German-American culture in Baltimore" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total.