President Woodrow Wilson borrowed the idea of Flag Day from a small-town Wisconsin school teacher.In 1885, Bernard Cigrand ...

WE HAVE A FLAG BEHIND US. IT IS THE FORT MCHENRY FLAG, THE WAR OF 1812 FLAG. 15 STARS AND 15 STRIPES. THAT WAS WHAT WAS GOING ON BACK THEN. SO WE HAVE GONE BACK TO A 13 STAR AND 13 STRIPE BUT WE ...

Adds Vince Vaise, Fort McHenry’s chief of interpretation ... Martin O’Malley may even show up, in his replica War of 1812 uniform.) With the flag proudly waving over the fort’s 21st ...

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 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 ...

So, the flag they would have flown during the War of 1812, the thing that makes Fort McHenry famous, makes us a national monument and historic shrine. ♪ ("Yankee Doodle" playing). SHANNON ...

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 ...

REMEMBER, THE BRITISH DURING THE WAR OF 1812 BURNED DOWN WASHINGTON ... PRESIDENTIAL PROCLAMATION TO FLY THE FLAG, 2407 365 IS RIGHT HERE AT FORT MCHENRY BY PRESIDENT TRUMAN.

It was, of course, the huge American flag that flew over Baltimore's Fort McHenry on a hot summer night ... cherished about the glories of the War of 1812. One episode that's hard to forget ...

The American flag that flew over Fort McHenry in Baltimore, Maryland, during the War of 1812 and inspired Francis Scott Key to write “The Star-Spangled Banner” is just one of the precious ...

It was another chapter in the ongoing War of 1812. A week earlier ... s defenses that he needed a flag—a big one: “We, sir, are ready at Fort McHenry to defend Baltimore against invading ...