14, 1814. The Baltimore attorney ... Key was certain that American defenses at Fort McHenry, just 40 miles from the nation’s capital, would collapse under the attack's intensity.

Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine was the last line of defense for the United States in 1814. Washington, the capital, had fallen to the British, and Baltimore became their next ...

The Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine ... It also honors the writing of the National Anthem in 1814. This will be the second time in four years that all events of the weekend ...

(WHTM) — By 1814, the War of 1812 was not going well ... the fort protecting the entrance to Baltimore’s Inner Harbor-Fort McHenry. The British Navy began a bombardment of the fort which ...

History | Updated: July 1, 2024 | Originally Published: March 1, 2007 How the flag that flew proudly over Fort McHenry in September 1814 made its way to the Smithsonian Cate Lineberry; Updated by ...

Fort McHenry was built in 1802 ... The Battle of Baltimore comes around in the summer of 1814, and Baltimore at that point in time is the third-largest city in the United States, it was one ...

The bridge was built mere yards from where Francis Scott Key watched the British bombardment of Fort McHenry in 1814, inspiring him to write the... Baltimore's Key Bridge, which collapsed after ...

Sept. 13 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1814, during a British attack on Fort McHenry, Md., Francis Scott Key wrote the lyrics of "The Star-Spangled Banner." In 1940, the chapel at Buckingham ...

Like so many famous songs of yore, "The Star-Spangled Banner" started as a poem, called “The Defence of Fort McHenry.” It was written by Francis Scott Key in 1814 during the War of 1812.

Scholars believe it stood within 100 yards of the site where its namesake, Francis Scott Key, witnessed the failed British bombardment of Fort McHenry in September 1814. The bombardment was a key ...