**Baltimore's Revolutionary War Legacy: From Wartime Capital to Star-Spangled City**
PEOPLE
KEY EVENTS
British Bombardment of Fort McHenry
Sep 1814
Francis Scott Key Writes "The Star-Spangled Banner"
Sep 1814
Maryland Line's Sacrifice at Long Island
Aug 1776
Continental Congress Relocates to Baltimore
Dec 1776
Congress Grants Washington Emergency Powers
Dec 1776
Howard's Bayonet Charge at Cowpens
Jan 1781
STORIES
HISTORICAL VOICE
Good God, What Brave Fellows
The Maryland soldiers knew what they were being asked to do. The British had flanked the American position at Brooklyn. The army was falling back toward the boats that might carry them to Manhattan. S...
MODERN VOICE
By the Dawn's Early Light
People come here and they want to stand where Key stood. I have to explain: Key wasn't at the fort. He was miles away in the Patapsco River, aboard a British truce vessel, having gone out to negotiate...