On September 10, the British fleet and forces entered the Patapsco River downstream from there. ... The BritishAca,!a,,cs fleet commenced firing on Fort McHenry on the morning of September 13.

The tugboat Fort McHenry, one of nearly 150 vessels currently operating out of seven Vane Brothers locations along the U.S. East Coast, has joined the company’s New York-based Alpha Fleet and is ...

After the British fleet was thwarted by the guns of Fort McHenry and with its invading soldiers bogged down on the east side, part of the fleet swung westward, sailing past Fort McHenry into the ...

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 ...

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 ...

British ships invaded the Chesapeake during the War of 1812 and the then-weekly Maryland Gazette reported enemy movements, the burning of Washington, D.C., and bombing of Fort McHenry. To commemora… ...

The flag’s history starts not with Key, but rather a year earlier, with Major George Armistead, the commander of Fort McHenry. Knowing that his fort was a likely British target, Armistead, in ...

The quickly constructed, earthen star-shaped Fort Whetstone, built in 1776, was the first fortification to occupy the site where Fort McHenry now stands.The city’s vulnerability to a waterborne ...

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.