Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine

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Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine

Maryland · MD

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Fort McHenry is a historical American coastal pentagonal bastion fort on Locust Point, now a neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland. It is best known for its role in the War of 1812, when it successfully defended Baltimore Harbor from an attack by the British Royal Navy from Chesapeake Bay on September 13–14, 1814.

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