“This is the feel-good side of the War of 1812,” says Vince Vaise, Fort McHenry’s chief interpreter. “We won the battle here, we don’t hate the British anymore, and the flag and national ...

Arkansas State USD1812 Vice President Kimberley Stout addresses the 133rd Associate Council of the National Society United ...

During the War of 1812, British forces sailed to Baltimore, Maryland, intent on attacking the city. But Baltimore was defended by Fort McHenry — a star-shaped fort perfectly situated on the Baltimore ...

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.

the War of 1812. The words describe a battle. With a fleet of warships in Baltimore Harbor, the British sent a downpour of shells and rockets on Fort McHenry for 25 hours in September 1814.

Fort McHenry is actually a site connected to the War of 1812 and not, as Trump stated, the Revolutionary War. In fact Fort McHenry wasn't built until 1798. A leading sex and dating writer in the ...

The War of 1812 was fought in the wake of The UK ... he watched his country’s spangled banner fly over the bombarded Fort McHenry: “O, say, can you see… does that banner yet wave?” ...

The flag that Francis Scott Key saw raised over Fort McHenry 200 years ago this month ... a string of U.S. defeats during the War of 1812. Today, on the National Air and Space Museum website ...

There are six National Parks within an hour and a half radius of the heart of Washington, D.C., that can be visited on ...