You’re a better man than me.
They’re just garbage.
CAN ANYONE HELP ME WITH FACTS ABOUT THE ATTACK ON THE FORT DURING THE WRITING OF THE SONG?!?!?!
Did any of our great men die? The fort survived but what were the results of the night’s attack?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_McHenry
Beginning at 6:00 a.m. on September 13, 1814, British warships under the command of Vice Admiral Alexander Cochrane continuously bombarded Fort McHenry for 25 hours.[4] The American defenders had 18-, 24- and 32-pounder (8, 11, and 16 kg) cannons. The British guns had a range of 2 miles (3 km), and the British rockets had a 1.75-mile (2.8 km) range, but neither guns nor rockets were accurate. The British ships were unable to pass Fort McHenry and penetrate Baltimore Harbor because of its defenses, including a chain of 22 sunken ships, and the American cannons. The British vessels were only able to fire their rockets and mortars at the fort at the weapons’ maximum range. The poor accuracy on both sides resulted in very little damage to either side before the British, having depleted their ammunition, ceased their attack on the morning of September 14.[5] Thus the naval part of the British invasion of Baltimore had been repulsed. Only one British warship, a bomb vessel, received a direct hit from the fort’s return fire, which wounded one crewman.[citation needed]
The Americans, under the command of Major George Armistead, lost four killed— including one African-American soldier, Private William Williams, and a woman who was cut in half by a bomb as she carried supplies to the troops— and 24 wounded. At one point during the bombardment, a bomb crashed through the fort’s powder magazine. Fortunately for the Americans, either the rain extinguished the fuse or the bomb was a dud.[6]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Williams_(soldier)
Born Frederick Hall who used the alias William Williams as a runaway African American slave who enlisted as a private in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812 and who died from a mortal wound while defending Fort McHenry from the British naval bombardment in 1814.[1]
http://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc5700/sc5768/pdf/blacksoldier.pdf
National Park Service
U.S. Department of the Interior
Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine
Maryland
A Black Soldier Defends Fort McHenry