Star Spangled Banner National Historic Trail
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Kent Island served as an ideal base of operations for the British in August 1813, as it was already an important link between Maryland's eastern and western shores. The British took over the Kent Island-Annapolis ferry, including a cargo of cattle, and used…
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British soldiers approaching Queenstown by land August 13, 1813, had to negotiate a thin mile-long causeway through marshes at The Narrows. The only road connection between Kent Island and the Eastern Shore mainland was the crude hand-dug rutted wagon trail…
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A victory off the coast of Brazil inspired John Contee to name this property "Java's Farm." Contee was a lieutenant on the USS Constitution when it captured and burned the British frigate HMS Java, December 29, 1812.
Contee purchased a plantatio…
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The original Library of Congress occupied a room in the U.S. Capitol. When British troops burned the Capitol in 1814, the collection was destroyed. After the war Thomas Jefferson helped re-establish the library by selling to Congress at a discount some 5,50…
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The U.S. Capitol was the British troop's first target when they arrived in Washington on August 24, 1814, only hours after their afternoon victory at the Battle of Bladensburg. The invaders fired rockets through the Capitol's windows. When the building's ir…
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"[The British] put a slow match to the [Sewall] house ... and those rockets burst until ... they made the rafters fly East and West." — Eslaved African American diarist and eyewitness Michael Shiner.
As the British marched along B Street …
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The original St. Leonard's Town, at the head of St. Leonard Creek, served as the Chesapeake Flotilla's base in June 1814. The flotilla moved out after intense fighting on June 26, exposing the town to destructive British raids.
The town site suffered from …
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British forces landed at Hallowing Point July 21, 1814. They took 21 slaves and destroyed the home and barn of Colonel Benjamin Mackall. This was perhaps retaliation for the house being used by Calvert County militia.
"About 300 men landed (at Hollowi…
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A British force of about 160 Royal Marines and 30 Colonial Marines (former slaves) took Lower Marlboro on June 15, 1814, without and resistance. Occupying the town overnight, they burned warehouses full of tobacco, stole a schooner, livestock, and poultry, …
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British raiding parties brought the war to Calvert County in 1814, destroying plantations and towns and carrying away the spoils. With the county's tobacco-based economy and England as its primary market at the start of the war, Britain's blockade of Chesap…