The Battle of Fort McHenry: War of 1812

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The War of 1812 between the United States and Great Britain ultimately ended in stalemate. Yet in the aftermath of one U.S. victory, a poem was penned that would become the new nation’s national anthem.
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@bigsarge2085 Жыл бұрын

The National Anthem has a deeper meaning for nearly everyone I know who served, myself included.

@shanestahl8788 Жыл бұрын

Whose brought stripes and bright stars through the perilous night? You my good sir! God bless you and all that have served.

@bigsarge2085 Жыл бұрын

@@shanestahl8788 Thanks. P.S. It's "broad stripes."

@odysseusrex5908 Жыл бұрын

@@shanestahl8788 Whose *broad* stripes and bright stars o'er the ramparts we watched Were so gallantly streaming

@odysseusrex5908 Жыл бұрын

I never knew about the sunken ships being used to block the harbor, very interesting.

@jacksnyder7318 Жыл бұрын

Great history lesson, thank you.

@revere0311 Жыл бұрын

Good stuff as always, even has the TikTok music to boot. Keep it up!

@HistoryBoy-ui5nb Жыл бұрын

Although, I think this a well-known fact but still interesting to note that a future relative of George Armstiead would be Lewis Armstiead. He was a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War, famous for leading his Virginia troops and dieing during Pickett’s Charge at Gettysburg.

@Dead_insidevr Жыл бұрын

The building in front of the flag that was shown, was not built until the civil war era, so the “sally port” was a tunnel the now enters the fort, but then in 1814 there was just a bridge