The British Attack of Fort McHenry, Baltimore in 1812 by American School
© Bridgeman Art Library / Private Collection / Peter Newark American Pictures
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- The British Attack of Fort McHenry, Baltimore in 1812
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- American School
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- Bridgeman Art Library
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- © Bridgeman Art Library / Private Collection / Peter Newark American Pictures
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Fort McHenry is best known for its role in the War of 1812, when it successfully defended Baltimore Harbor from an attack by the British navy in Chesapeake Bay. It was this bombardment inspired that Francis Scott Key to write The Star-Spangled Banner, the poem that would eventually be turned into the national anthem of the United States;
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