. This book also includes detailed information on the nine other nearby forts that defended the mouth of the Patapsco River during the 19th Century. It is illus

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Provides the history of Fort McHenry, a national monument and historical shrine, where Francis Scott Key watched the British bomb America and wrote the famous p

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