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The flag that flew from the ramparts at Fort McHenry and inspired the famous poem by Francis Scott Key was sewn …
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The Battle Monument was America's first public war memorial and the first since antiquity to honor the common soldier. Designed by Maximilian Godefroy, its construction began in 1815, shortly after the event it commemorates: in 1814, after the Bri…
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Cecilivs Calvert Baron Baltimore of Baltimore in the Kingdom of Ireland · Absolvte Lord and Proprietary of the Provinces of Maryland and Avalon in America · Who on November 13, 1633 with the co-operation and assent of the first Colon…
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This Monument
was erected by the citizens of Baltimore under the management of the Committee of Vigilance and Safety
in honor of the gallant defenders of this City and Nation who fell in the Battle of North Point
and during the bombardment o…
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After crushing the Americans at Bladensburg and invading the Nation's Capital, the British targeted Baltimore. If they could capture the city—-the third largest in the United States and a commercial and shipbuilding hub—-they could lik…
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In 1813, Mary Pickersgill's flag-making business was commissioned to sew a garrison flag and a smaller storm flag for Fort McHenry, Mary's mother, daughter, nieces, and African American servants helped complete the task in about seven weeks.
On S…
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Daniel Wells, 19 and Henry McComas, 18, made history September 12, 1814, when they allegedly killed a British commander Major General Robert Ross. The two sharpshooters fired simultaneously. Both were quickly dead by British soldier.
Considered h…
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Old East Baltimore historic district is significant for its association with the history of immigration in Baltimore, its intact rowhouses and religious structures representing a range of architectural styles from the 1840s through the early 1900s…
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(Preface:) On April 19, 1861, Confederate sympathizers attacked the 6th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment as it changed trains en route to Washington, which the secessionists hoped to isolate. To learn more about the Baltimore Riot, the city's role …
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Although the United States banned the Transatlantic Slave Trade in 1808, a domestic trade from the Upper South to the emerging cotton-growing regions of the Deep South thrived until the 1860's. Baltimore-based dealers supplied the trade, operating…