Fort McHenry
About Fort McHenry
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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Francis Scott Key was on a British ship in the Baltimore Harbor and there was the bombing of Fort McHenry. He was watching as all the bombs went down and so on. It was in the dawn's early light that he saw this massive flag, the Stars and Stripes still flying there from this vantage point on the boat.
from No Such Thing As Tug of War for Clowns, 2020-11-27 at 00:47:01 · read transcript
Other times Fort McHenry came up
It had to be proposed that law by a representative and it was the man who proposed that was called John Linticum and he represented parts of Baltimore, which is what this song is about, isn't it? It's about Fort McHenry in Baltimore. To get this, Linticum himself, the politician, his first wife was a woman called Eugenia May Biden, who appears from what I can tell to be a relative of Joe Biden, distant relative.
349: No Such Thing As Tug of War for Clowns, 2020-11-27 · listen
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Coordinates: 39.2633, -76.5799