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As a result of this, Key was unable to do anything but watch the bombarding of the American forces at Fort McHenry during the Battle of Baltimore on the night of September 13 – 14, 1814.
At the Battle of Baltimore in 1814, the rockets fired on Fort McHenry by the rocket vessel HMS Erebus were the source of the rockets ' red glare described by Francis Scott Key in The Star-Spangled Banner.
* 1814 – The poem Defence of Fort McHenry is written by Francis Scott Key.
* 1814 – Francis Scott Key finishes his poem " Defence of Fort McHenry ", later to be the lyrics of " The Star-Spangled Banner ".
During the battle, Francis Scott Key composes his poem " Defence of Fort McHenry ", which is later set to music and becomes the United States ' national anthem.
The lyrics come from " Defence of Fort McHenry ", a poem written in 1814 by the 35-year-old lawyer and amateur poet, Francis Scott Key, after witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry by the British Royal Navy ships in Chesapeake Bay during the Battle of Fort McHenry in the War of 1812.
An artist's rendering of the battle at Fort McHenry
He completed the poem at the Indian Queen Hotel, where he was staying, and entitled it " Defence of Fort McHenry ".
Soon after, Thomas Carr of the Carr Music Store in Baltimore published the words and music together under the title " The Star-Spangled Banner ", although it was originally called " Defence of Fort McHenry ".
* September 13 – War of 1812: The British bombard Fort McHenry at Baltimore.
September 13: Bombardment of Fort McHenry.
It would again seen conflict during War of 1812 ; in 1814 British warships attacked Fort McHenry in Baltimore ; in a separate attack, British troops sailed up the Chesapeake, landed on the west side near Washington D. C., and trekked overland to burn the capital.
* George Armistead, commander of Fort McHenry during the Battle of Baltimore
This was done in anticipation of the bicentennial commemoration at Fort McHenry in 2014 of the battle which inspired Francis Scott Key to write his inspirational poem which later became our national anthem, The Star-Spangled Banner.
It was the use of Congreve rockets by the British in the bombardment of Fort McHenry in the US in 1814 that inspired the fifth line of the first verse of the United States National Anthem, " The Star-Spangled Banner ": " And the rockets ’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air ".
* Fort McHenry, Fort Delaware and Fort Carroll

Fort and looking
This notice was found later that year by Astorians looking to establish an inland fur post, contributing to their selection of a more northerly site at Fort Okanogan.
The Concert Hall lobby also features more than a dozen Southwestern landscape paintings by Stanton Englehart, a founding faculty member of the FLC Art Department renowned for capturing the beauty and mystery of the canyon country of the Colorado Plateau. Fort Lewis College campus looking north, showing the Southwestern-style architecture.
An " antenna farm " visible from Interstate 75 can be seen looking east which includes a cell phone tower, the transmitting towers of WFGF-FM and WIMT-FM, along with WIMA ( AM ) located to the north in neighboring Fort Shawnee.
Wyatt and his common-law wife Mattie Blaylock were in Fort Griffin, Texas, during the winter of 1887, looking for gambling opportunities.
Image: Wallula-gap-4-A. JPG | Picture taken from location slightly above the location of Fort Nez Percés as seen in 2006, looking to the south toward the Walulla Gap.
Fort Adams houses four stages, the main one of which sits looking out at Newport harbor and the famous Claiborne Pell Bridge.
V Beach was long with Cape Helles and Fort Etrugrul ( Fort No. 1 ) on the left and the old Sedd el Bahr castle ( Fort No. 3 ) on the right, looking from the sea.
Browsing around, David runs across an elderly woman, who walks through a door, apparently from downtown Fort Lauderdale, looking for lost time.
Agee's novel, A Death in the Family, ends with Agee (" Rufus " in the novel ) and his uncle conversing while looking out over the ruins of Fort Sanders.
It is looking north at the curve to the left after the Fort Tejon exit ; this can be confirmed by comparing the mountain in the background with about 1 / 5 through this Caltrans photolog file ( thus about postmile 6 in Kern County ).
The Fort is a local landmark which is in a very prominent position overlooking much of the land looking south towards Afton Down.
Confederate Fort Moultrie on Sullivan's Island looking east into Charleston Harbor
View of the beach at Fort Victoria, looking west.
Inside Fort Victoria, looking out the East Gate
Fort Point Channel, as seen from the south end looking north.
The Mobile River, looking northward from the site of Fort Stoddert.
( For additional information on the early history of Tolagnaro ( then called Fort Dauphin ), see For an early picture of a grave site at Libanona, looking towards Bezavona, see.
Sometimes referred to as Fort William, the post was in " the perfect place at the perfect time " for someone looking to make money from trading.
Oblique airphoto of Fort Worth Army Airfield in 1945, looking east to west.
Inside Fort Mims looking at the west wall and gate.
Rich Collins, then the museum director, worried about the facility looking " like Fort Knox or a penal colony ".

Fort and towards
Several resistants were detained and tortured in the Fort of Queuleu in Metz and Jean Moulin died in Metz's railway station while on a train in transit towards Germany.
The northern intersection of Interstate 35 East and West, which branches the two portions of the highway towards Dallas and Fort Worth, is located in Denton County, in the city of Denton near the campus of the University of North Texas.
Vallejo was also partial towards the influx of American immigrants, both legal and illegal, who entered by way of Sutter's Fort, despite his personal dislike of John Sutter.
The route passes a gate into Fort Dix before intersecting County Route 670 and leaving the fort, towards a mix of farmland and woodland.
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram covered the story in February 1995, which sent an initial avalanche of media coverage from around the world towards the newly-founded organization.
Initially running east towards Dallas-Fort Worth, the Brazos turns south, passing through Waco, further south to near Calvert, Texas then past Bryan and College Station, then through Richmond, Texas in Fort Bend County, and into the Gulf of Mexico in the marshes just south of Freeport.
Fort Carillon was situated south of Lake Champlain and north of Lake George, a natural point of conflict between the French forces, who were advancing south from Quebec through the Richelieu River towards Lake Champlain and the Hudson Valley, and the British forces, who were hoping to move north.
At Fort Simpson it is joined by the Liard River, its largest tributary, then swings towards the Arctic, paralleling the Franklin Mountains as it receives the North Nahanni River.
The American troops continued on towards the next objective, Deokjin Fort, which they found abandoned.
The line of Hazelwell Street sets the course of the road towards the next established point of the route at Metchley Fort in the grounds of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital.
Union boats began landing troops near Arkansas Post in the evening of January 9 and the troops started up river towards Fort Hindman.
Flag Officer David D. Porter, on January 10, moved his fleet towards Fort Hindman and bombarded it, withdrawing at dusk.
Continuing towards the South, I-820 leaves Hurst and reenters the Fort Worth city limits.
When the British began to concentrate their military efforts on the southern colonies in 1779, Washington used the opportunity to launch the planned offensive towards Fort Niagara.
The Indians fled towards Fort Miami, but they found gates closed against them.
In November, Chief Charley Emathla, wanting no part of a war, led his people towards Fort Brooke where they were to board ships to go west.
Leaving Fort Gardiner on the upper Kissimmee with 1, 000 men on December 19, Taylor headed towards Lake Okeechobee.
The ruins of Fort Charles remain towards the south of the town.
* Tchó ' kanä, Tchóⁿkanäⁿ (" Pulverizing People ", " Rubbing People "): merged later with the Tcha shka-ózhäye, lived west of Fort Griffin, Texas, along the upper Colorado River towards the western side of the Rio Grande, about 1884 extinct.
* Ndáwe qóhä, Ndáwe qóhäⁿ, Ndáwe ɣóhäⁿ (" Fire People ", " Camp Circle People "): lived southeast of Fort Griffin, along the Colorado, San Saba and Llano Rivers towards the upper Nueces River and its tributaries the Frio River and Atascosa River in Texas.
Curving back towards the east, the road enters Fort Sumner, the county seat, later.
Fort Amsterdam is the large quadrangular structure towards the tip of the island.
This proclamation affected Pennsylvanians and Virginians the most, as they had been racing towards the poor lands surrounding Fort Pitt ( modern-day Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ).
Wavell quickly prepared Operation Brevity, a limited operation with the intention of seizing Sollum, the Halfaya Pass, and Fort Capuzzo, then continuing to advance on to Sidi Aziez and towards Tobruk as far as supply would allow while not risking the forces committed ; its objective was to destroy as much Axis equipment as possible and secure a foothold for the larger Operation Battleaxe to be launched from once the new tanks were made available.

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