Back in 1814, cannon atop Federal Hill warned Baltimore of the arrival of the British fleet. This year, in a far more celebratory mode, a few score living historians and the Fort McHenry Guard ...

The British, after torching government buildings in Washington, sailed up the Chesapeake Bay with plans to bombard Fort McHenry, at the entrance to the harbor in Baltimore, and capture the city.

The British fleet was compelled to rely primarily on its bomb vessels to silence the fortAca,!a,,cs guns. Those vessels could not silence the fort after firing for twenty-four hours.

Vane Brothers is hailing the newest addition to its fleet: the Fort McHenry, a state-of-the-art, 3,000-horsepower tugboat named in honor of the historic landmark that can be seen from the company ...

On Sept. 14, 1814, at 7:30 a.m., a British fleet of 19 warships ceased fire after a 25-hour barrage of more than 1,500 Congreve rockets and exploding shells on Fort McHenry in order to lay siege ...

Port Covington’s name celebrates a fort that participated in the defense of Baltimore during the War of 1812. While not nearly as famous as its sister, Fort McHenry, that name has been oblite… ...

After witnessing a crucial episode of the War of 1812, Francis Scott Key wrote the poem that, set to the melody of an ...

American Francis Scott Key awoke on the morning of Sept. 14, 1814, to find that "our flag was still there" after horrific 25-hour British naval bombardment of Fort McHenry in Baltimore.

Two hundred years ago this month, Key witnessed the British fleet launching the rockets over Baltimore Harbor during the battle for Fort McHenry, an historic victory that interrupted a string of U ...

When the offensive against Fort McHenry commenced, a British shell struck its southwest stronghold and the explosion instantly killed two American militiamen, Lieutenant Levi Claggett and Sergeant ...