The monarch used the rare speaking opportunity to declare the nation “strong and free” despite America’s encroachment.

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In September 1814, during the War of 1812, British naval forces launched a relentless bombardment of Fort McHenry in Baltimore Harbor. For 25 grueling hours, approximately 1,800 shells rained down on ...

On May 16, 1813, the War of 1812 reached Maryland when the British Navy entered the Patapsco River. After burning Frenchtown’s depot, they were repelled at Elkton. Dr. Julie Shively, Command ...

By using surviving artifacts, eyewitness testimony, accurately reproduced uniforms ... and scenes of the French & Indian War, American Civil War, War of 1812 and more. Through his work, Troiani ...

In the War of 1812, militia units shielded our fledgling ... firefighters swapping civilian uniforms for military ones, parents serving their families by serving their community, state and nation.

His first book, The Naval War of 1812, published in 1882, became a landmark work that influenced the rise of the modern US Navy. 7. Woodrow Wilson Woodrow Wilson, the 28th president with an ...

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The patriots also employed enslaved and free Blacks in the navy ... on their uniforms, fought for the British as equals alongside whites. Dunmore himself soon left the war behind, but subsequent ...

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