A giant American flag above Baltimore's Fort McHenry on Sept. 14, 1814, signaling the city's rebuff of the mighty British navy during the War of 1812. In the run-up to the bicentennial celebration ...

Maj. George Armistead, commander of Fort McHenry, had requested that a giant flag be made to fly over the fort a year earlier, with the War of 1812 well underway and certain at some point he would ...

The birthplace of The Star-Spangled Banner is rich with American history that goes beyond the War of 1812. Fort McHenry was instrumental ... intro video and other flag-related exhibits.

Designed to fly from a 90-foot pole, the flag measured 30 by 42 feet. Now it is 30 by 34 feet, reduced by wear and tear at Fort McHenry and by uncounted bits and pieces snipped off as mementos.

The raising of the American flag on September 14th inspired Francis ... After the War of 1812, Fort McHenry remained an active military fortification. Many additions were made to the fort after ...

white and blue buoy marks the spot where Francis Scott Key observed the British bombarding Fort McHenry for a 24-hour period. With the War of 1812 raging, the British had already marched on ...

Today a national park and historic shrine, Fort McHenry is also a civic ... during the day are replicas of the flags used at the fort during the War of 1812 and have 15 stars and 15 stripes.

They danced all around the hospital at Fort McHenry when the armistice ending ... “There would be no waving of flags for us,” Williams wrote in a memoir. “No sense of danger faced in common ...

NATIONAL PARK Service Ranger Vince Vaise brought a 30-by-42-foot flag to the Linthicum branch library last week, a replica of the one flown over Fort McHenry during the War of 1812. With the help ...

Camp Umoja unites Baltimore City, suburban youth Some students are getting a true Fort McHenry experience. They're participants in a traditional War of 1812 Fife and Drum Camp. "I'm a really big ...