Posted on 09/14/2019 5:31:51 AM PDT by harpygoddess
September 13th and 14th mark the anniversary of the Battle of Baltimore during the War of 1812, remembered primarily for the unsuccessful British bombardment of Fort McHenry and Francis Scott Key's penning the words of "The Star-Spangled Banner" while interned on a British warship.
President James Madison had declared war on Great Britain in June 1812 in response to interference with American shipping and the impressment of U.S. merchant seamen during the Napoleonic wars, as well as the British stirring up the Indians of the Ohio Valley to resist American settlement. Following an abortive American invasion of southern Canada, the British sent a modest naval and marine force - newly freed up from the Spanish campaign against Napoleon - to the Chesapeake in retaliation.
After returning to their ships, the British moved up the Chesapeake Bay to attack Baltimore with a naval penetration of the Patapsco River and an amphibious landing southeast of the city on 12 September.
By then, however, the Americans had rallied their own forces, stopped the (outnumbered) British at the Battle of North Point, and fought off the Royal Navy's attempt to reduce Fort McHenry on the night of September 13th - 14th. In the face of these failures, the badly over-extended British expedition withdrew southward and departed the Chesapeake Bay to prepare for the New Orleans campaign.
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Perhaps it would have been better had we left Baltimore to the Brits.
The Star Spangled Banner is ‘racist’ don’t you know!
Land of the free. Home of the brave. Those words are going to be put to the test as never before in this country if we want to preserve our liberty. Fighting an enemy from the outside is far more desirable than removing the cancer from within.
And it also glorifies war, as per Meathead’s lecture to Archie, lol.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pgzi80dVelA
The fact that an American sniper killed the British Commander General Ross was incredibly significant. The aggressive Ross would have made a land attack on Fort McHenry after the naval bombardment and the entire war may have turned out differently. Sometimes a solitary shot changes history.
This video puts into perspective the actions of today’s ungrateful ignorant morons (”ig-mos”) who truly think that kneeling in a show of public disrespect for our flag and of their unmitigated hatred of America is an act of “bravery”.
America’s Kamikaze. The Divine Wind. The hurricane that routed the British and helped put out the fires.
All caused by global warming because of Madison’s hate of the planet. He let the citizens heat with wood.
The company I work for has a plant in the vicinity of the Battle of North Point where America was saved.
Bttt
I still get a little disturbed that at a time, a foreign power could actually do that. Sail right up into the inland waterways of the U.S. and shell major cities.
We think of Pearl Harbor, which was at least a military base in an overseas colony that most people didnt know where it even was, but never an actual American city.
The sniper that killed British Maj. Gen. Ross was an armed American citizen, whose marksmanship not only saved Baltimore, but likely New Orleans as well. Even two centuries later the lesson still prevailed, as Japanese Admiral Yamashita remarked that no one could invade the United States because there would be a rifle behind ever blade of grass.
Yamamoto, not Yamashita. Tomoyuki Yamasita, the “Tiger of Malaya”, was a general.
Isoroku Yamamoto, not Yamashita.
I’m humming the “racist war mongering tune”by Johnny Horton, “The Battle of New Orleans!”
Fantastic doc.
There is another doc circulating among conservatives that, while moving, is entirely wrong. It has the setting really as the Revolutionary War; has Key on board the British warships during the bombardment running down to the hold telling the “prisoners” what was happening; and mistakes the “storm flag” (which flew all night, but was taken down for the giant “Stars and Stripes” in the morning) for the large Stars and Stripes.
As noted in the doc, the “Star Spangled Banner” did not become the national anthem until 1931. Before that, the de facto national anthem was “My Country ‘Tis of Thee,” and both were set to English songs.
Before aerial reconnaissance and radar and such, it was easy to do. One had to depend on manual lookouts back then.
Right.
Heh! Me, too . Are we old, or what??
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