Built in 1798, Fort McHenry and the Americans in it successfully defended Baltimore Harbor from the British Navy in the War of 1812. The scene inspired Francis Scott Key to write “The Star ...

The Army Corps of Engineers is proposing flood walls be constructed to protect the entrances of Baltimore’s Fort McHenry and Harbor tunnels amid a growing flood risk due to climate change.

BALTIMORE (WJZ ... the story of the War in 1812 when Francis Scott Key was in the harbor and watched the bombardment of Fort McHenry," Vietzke said. In this slow visitor season, the fort ...

BALTIMORE (AP) — The Fort McHenry National Monument in Baltimore ... windswept tip of a peninsula overlooking Baltimore's Inner Harbor. In a tweet, administrators of the coastal fort that ...

You'll probably spend much of your time in Baltimore's Inner Harbor. But if you have some ... home to the NFL's Baltimore Ravens. Fort McHenry, the brick fort where Francis Scott Key wrote ...

But Baltimore was defended by Fort McHenry — a star-shaped fort perfectly situated on the Baltimore Harbor. On the morning of September 13, 1814, the British navy attacked the fort for 25 hours.

“We’ve cleared the Fort McHenry Federal Channel for safe ... Headquartered near Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, Baltimore District provides design, engineering, construction, environmental and ...

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Baltimore?s harbor will welcome home an old friend tomorrow. The USS Fort McHenry (LSD 43), with rails manned in full dress, should cruise under the Francis Scott Key Bridge by dawn?s early light.

Scholars believe it stood within 100 yards of the site where its namesake, Francis Scott Key, witnessed the failed British bombardment of Fort McHenry ... of Baltimore's Harbor, and the only ...