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1. ARTZPL_150228_06.JPG: War of 1812 Breaks Out Free Trade and Sailors' Rights: The United States declared war on Great Britain in June 1812. "Free Trade and Sailors' Rights," cried pro-war forces. We are tired of being bullied on the seas, our sailors pressed into Royal service. Most Marylanders agreed. But critics, particularly New Englanders, strongly dissented. They dubbed it "Mr. Madison's War." No matter where you stood, one thing was clear: The United States, poorly-prepared and fiercely divided had picked a fight with an international power and the world's mightiest army. Turbulent Inhabitants: Baltimoreans embraced war, especially in the city's shipbuilding center at Fell's Point (see map, below). Local captains and investors eventually outfitted nearly 130 privateers and blockade runners -- armed vessels with letters-of-marque commissions allowing them to seize enemy ships. Manned by white and black seaman [sic], Baltimore schooners like Rossie, Comet and Chasseur cruised the Caribbean, North Atlantic and British Isles seizing merchant ships and battling the Royal Navy. Terror on the Chesapeake A Campaign of Harassment and Plunder: Great Britain declared a blockade of the Chesapeake Bay in late 1812. Over the next two years, Marylanders were in the cross hairs of war. The Royal Navy, hoping to divert American troops from the war's Canadian theatre, patrolled the bay, seizing ships, conducting raids, skirmishing with local militia, burning tobacco, and encouraging slaves to leave their owners. In the end, the campaign of terror on the Chesapeake failed -- and only helped unite anti-war and pro-war Marylanders in common cause against there British occupiers.
2. ARTZPL_150228_09.JPG: War of 1812 Breaks Out Free Trade and Sailors' Rights: The United States declared war on Great Britain in June 1812. "Free Trade and Sailors' Rights," cried pro-war forces. We are tired of being bullied on the seas, our sailors pressed into Royal service. Most Marylanders agreed. But critics, particularly New Englanders, strongly dissented. They dubbed it "Mr. Madison's War." No matter where you stood, one thing was clear: The United States, poorly-prepared and fiercely divided had picked a fight with an international pwoer and the world's mightiest army. Turbulent Inhabitants: Baltimoreans embraced war, especially in the city's shipbuilding center at Fell's Point (see map, below). Local captains and investors eventually outfitted nearly 130 privateers and blockade runners -- armed vessels with letters-of-marque commissions allowing them to seize enemy ships. Manned by white and black seaman [sic], Baltimore schooners like Rossie, Comet and Chasseur cruised the Caribbean, North Atlantic and British Isles seizing merchant ships and battling the Royal Navy.
3. ARTZPL_150228_15.JPG: Terror on the Chesapeake A Campaign of Harassment and Plunder: Great Britain declared a blockade of the Chesapeake Bay in late 1812. Over the next two years, Marylanders were in the cross hairs of war. The Royal Navy, hoping to divert American troops from the war's Canadian theatre, patrolled the bay, seizing ships, conducting raids, skirmishing with local militia, burning tobacco, and encouraging slaves to leave their owners. In the end, the campaign of terror on the Chesapeake failed -- and only helped unite anti-war and pro-war Marylanders in common cause against there British occupiers.
4. ARTZPL_150228_18.JPG: And where is that band who so vauntingly swore That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion, A home and a country should leave us no more! Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave: And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave! -- Third verse of Francis Scott Key's Star-Spangled Banner, Baltimore, September 1814
5. ARTZPL_150228_21.JPG: Black Jacks Black sailors, known as Black Jacks, often made up 20 percent of crews. (Sailors of that era were called Jack Tars.) George Roberts, shown here in old age, served as a gunner aboard Thomas Boyle's Chesseur. Earliest in the war Robinson had been captured by the British and briefly imprisoned in Jamaica.
6. ARTZPL_150228_24.JPG: Shining Moments: As others panicked and fled the British on August 24, 1814, Dolley Madison took heroic action. The First Lady moved to safety an original draft of the Declaration of Independence and the famous Gilbert Stuart portrait of George Washington. Both would surely have perished when the British burned the President's House. Madison's foresight was one bright side in an otherwise embarrassing episode. For our altars and our hearths: Maryland was the scene of seven battles, 21 skirmishes and 61 British raids along the Chesapeake Bay and the Potomac, Patuxent and Choptank rivers. Local militia sometimes fought back, but generally avoided direct engagement with superior forces. The low point: August 23-25, 1814 with the British rout at Bladensburg and capture of Washington DC. The highpoint: the heroic defense of Baltimore three weeks later.
7. ARTZPL_150228_31.JPG: The Battle for Baltimore All Hands are Called: with smoke visible on the skyline, reports of Washington, DC's capture flooded into Baltimore in late August 1814. This was not the first threat of attack, but Baltimoreans felt certain that the British would make America's third largest city their next target, burning their shipyards, pilfering their warehouses. Preparations, under Major General Sam Smith, reached a feverish pitch. Shore gun batteries were fortified and breastworks built east of town. Fort McHenry was reinforced, and vessels sunk across the harbor mouth. Militiamen from Pennsylvania, Virginia and the Maryland countryside poured into town. On September 11, 1814 -- 17 days after burning America's capital -- the Royal Navy, with 5,000 troops aboard, sailed into the Patapsco River. The time had come. For four days in September 1814, Baltimore's fate hung in the balance. The British fleet arrived on the Patapsco on September 11. Early on the 12th, troops disembarked and began marching toward Baltimore. That afternoon, during the Battle of North Point, Maryland militia slowed the enemy advance -- and killed their beloved leader, Major General Robert Ross. On a cold and rainy September 13, a demoralized British army moved within sight of Baltimore's three-mile-long earthwork defense along Hampstead Hill. Looking up at 100 cannon and more than 10,000 troops, the British chose to wait out the Royal Navy's assault on Fort McHenry. At dawn on September 14, the British ended their 25-hour bombardment, having failed to disable the fort. Baltimore's defenders rejoiced, cautiously watching the British departure by land and sea.
8. ARTZPL_150228_40.JPG: O, say can you see by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming? And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? -- First verse of Francis Scott Key's Star-Spangled Banner, Baltimore, September 1814. September 12-14, 1814
9. ARTZPL_150228_43.JPG: O' Say Can You See Preserved as a Nation News of Baltimore's defiant stand spread quickly. So did a new song written by a Marylander who witnessed the attack. American victories here and in Plattsburg, New York, helped nudge Britain toward peace. And Francis Scott Key's "Star-Spangled Banner" gave voice to a new sense of American unity and resolve. The signing of the Treaty of Ghent on Christmas Eve, 1814, formally ended the War of 1812. Before word reached the United States, American troops at New Orleans under Andrew Jackson had defeated British forces -- many of whom were veterans of the Battle of Baltimore. On the high seas, Baltimore privateers continued seizing British ships well until Spring 1815, long past congressional ratification of the treaty. A Bicentennial Commemoration Join Us Maryland is throwing a Star-Spangled celebration that you don't want to miss. Sing the National Anthem in the city where it was born. Help us unfurl our 15-star flag. Fall in for field drills. Scramble up the ramparts. Help us raise our sails. Become a Citizen-Soldier in the land of the free and the home of the brave. You will find plenty to do for the entire family along the Star-Spangled Banner National Historic Trail, a permanent legacy of the bicentennial, and by visiting www.StarSpangled200.org
10. ARTZPL_150228_46.JPG: O' Say Can You See Preserved as a Nation News of Baltimore's defiant stand spread quickly. So did a new song written by a Marylander who witnessed the attack. American victories here and in Plattsburg, New York, helped nudge Britain toward peace. And Francis Scott Key's "Star-Spangled Banner" gave voice to a new sense of American unity and resolve. The signing of the Treaty of Ghent on Christmas Eve, 1814, formally ended the War of 1812. Before word reached the United States, American troops at New Orleans under Andrew Jackson had defeated British forces -- many of whom were veterans of the Battle of Baltimore. On the high seas, Baltimore privateers continued seizing British ships well until Spring 1815, long past congressional ratification of the treaty.
11. ARTZPL_150228_50.JPG: Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand Between their loved home and the war's desolation! Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation. Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, And this be our motto: "In God is our trust." And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave! -- Final verse of Francis Scott Key's Star-Spangled Banner, Baltimore, September 1814 A Bicentennial Commemoration Join Us Maryland is throwing a Star-Spangled celebration that you don't want to miss. Sing the National Anthem in the city where it was born. Help us unfurl our 15-star flag. Fall in for field drills. Scramble up the ramparts. Help us raise our sails. Become a Citizen-Soldier in the land of the free and the home of the brave. You will find plenty to do for the entire family along the Star-Spangled Banner National Historic Trail, a permanent legacy of the bicentennial, and by visiting www.StarSpangled200.org
12. ARTZPL_150228_56.JPG: Classics George W. Lundeen
13. ARTZPL_150426_040.JPG: O, say can you see by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming? And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? -- First verse of Francis Scott Key's Star-Spangled Banner, Baltimore, September 1814.
14. ARTZPL_150426_046.JPG: War of 1812 Breaks Out Free Trade and Sailors' Rights: The United States declared war on Great Britain in June 1812. "Free Trade and Sailors' Rights," cried pro-war forces. We are tired of being bullied on the seas, our sailors pressed into Royal service. Most Marylanders agreed. But critics, particularly New Englanders, strongly dissented. They dubbed it "Mr. Madison's War." No matter where you stood, one thing was clear: The United States, poorly-prepared and fiercely divided had picked a fight with an international power and the world's mightiest army. Turbulent Inhabitants: Baltimoreans embraced war, especially in the city's shipbuilding center at Fell's Point (see map, below). Local captains and investors eventually outfitted nearly 130 privateers and blockade runners -- armed vessels with letters-of-marque commissions allowing them to seize enemy ships. Manned by white and black seaman [sic], Baltimore schooners like Rossie, Comet and Chasseur cruised the Caribbean, North Atlantic and British Isles seizing merchant ships and battling the Royal Navy. Terror on the Chesapeake A Campaign of Harassment and Plunder: Great Britain declared a blockade of the Chesapeake Bay in late 1812. Over the next two years, Marylanders were in the cross hairs of war. The Royal Navy, hoping to divert American troops from the war's Canadian theatre, patrolled the bay, seizing ships, conducting raids, skirmishing with local militia, burning tobacco, and encouraging slaves to leave their owners. In the end, the campaign of terror on the Chesapeake failed -- and only helped unite anti-war and pro-war Marylanders in common cause against there British occupiers.
15. ARTZPL_150426_050.JPG: Scourge of the Seas: Surprize, armed with 10 guns and 140 men, captured 43 British prizes between March 1814 and April 1815. The privateer schooner was built at St. Michael's on the Eastern Shore.
16. ARTZPL_150426_053.JPG: Free Trade and Sailors' Rights: The United States declared war on Great Britain in June 1812. "Free Trade and Sailors' Rights," cried pro-war forces. We are tired of being bullied on the seas, our sailors pressed into Royal service. Most Marylanders agreed. But critics, particularly New Englanders, strongly dissented. They dubbed it "Mr. Madison's War." No matter where you stood, one thing was clear: The United States, poorly-prepared and fiercely divided had picked a fight with an international power and the world's mightiest army.
17. ARTZPL_150426_056.JPG: Turbulent Inhabitants: Baltimoreans embraced war, especially in the city's shipbuilding center at Fell's Point (see map, below). Local captains and investors eventually outfitted nearly 130 privateers and blockade runners -- armed vessels with letters-of-marque commissions allowing them to seize enemy ships. Manned by white and black seaman [sic], Baltimore schooners like Rossie, Comet and Chasseur cruised the Caribbean, North Atlantic and British Isles seizing merchant ships and battling the Royal Navy.
18. ARTZPL_150426_062.JPG: Black Jacks Black sailors, known as Black Jacks, often made up 20 percent of crews. (Sailors of that era were called Jack Tars.) George Roberts, shown here in old age, served as a gunner aboard Thomas Boyle's Chesseur. Earliest in the war Robinson had been captured by the British and briefly imprisoned in Jamaica.
19. ARTZPL_150426_079.JPG: And where is that band who so vauntingly swore That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion, A home and a country should leave us no more! Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave: And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave! -- Third verse of Francis Scott Key's Star-Spangled Banner, Baltimore, September 1814
20. ARTZPL_150426_085.JPG: Free Trade and Sailors' Rights: The United States declared war on Great Britain in June 1812. "Free Trade and Sailors' Rights," cried pro-war forces. We are tired of being bullied on the seas, our sailors pressed into Royal service. Most Marylanders agreed. But critics, particularly New Englanders, strongly dissented. They dubbed it "Mr. Madison's War." No matter where you stood, one thing was clear: The United States, poorly-prepared and fiercely divided had picked a fight with an international pwoer and the world's mightiest army. Turbulent Inhabitants: Baltimoreans embraced war, especially in the city's shipbuilding center at Fell's Point (see map, below). Local captains and investors eventually outfitted nearly 130 privateers and blockade runners -- armed vessels with letters-of-marque commissions allowing them to seize enemy ships. Manned by white and black seaman [sic], Baltimore schooners like Rossie, Comet and Chasseur cruised the Caribbean, North Atlantic and British Isles seizing merchant ships and battling the Royal Navy.
21. ARTZPL_150426_091.JPG: A Campaign of Harassment and Plunder: Great Britain declared a blockade of the Chesapeake Bay in late 1812. Over the next two years, Marylanders were in the cross hairs of war. The Royal Navy, hoping to divert American troops from the war's Canadian theatre, patrolled the bay, seizing ships, conducting raids, skirmishing with local militia, burning tobacco, and encouraging slaves to leave their owners. In the end, the campaign of terror on the Chesapeake failed -- and only helped unite anti-war and pro-war Marylanders in common cause against there British occupiers.
22. ARTZPL_150426_093.JPG: Shining Moment: As others panicked and fled the British on August 24, 1814, Dolley Madison took heroic action. The First Lady moved to safety an original draft of the Declaration of Independence and the famous Gilbert Stuart portrait of George Washington. Both would surely have perished when the British burned the President's House. Madison's foresight was one bright spot in an otherwise embarrassing episode.
23. ARTZPL_150426_095.JPG: Public Enemy #1: Bay residents reviled Admiral George Cockburn for his role in Britain's punitive and vindictive campaign along the Chesapeake. In August 1813, one Virginia man offered $1000 for his head, calling him "the notorious incendiary and infamous scoundrel, and violator of all laws, human and divine..." Defending the Chesapeake: Joshua Barney, a skilled sea captain and veteran of the Continental Navy, hatched an audacious plan to harass the British. In 1813, the US Navy agreed to build an 18-vessel squadron of gunboats, barges and schooners. Captain Barney's US Chesapeake Flotilla left Baltimore in May 1814, heading south. In June, the flotilla fought two battles with the Royal Navy -- Maryland's largest naval engagements -- before Barney ordered the ships destroyed. Barney was later wounded at the Battle of Bladensburg, and never fully recovered.
24. ARTZPL_150426_118.JPG: The Battle for Baltimore
25. ARTZPL_150426_120.JPG: Morale Victory
26. ARTZPL_150426_124.JPG: All Hands are Called
27. ARTZPL_150426_127.JPG: Shouldering the Burden
28. ARTZPL_150426_132.JPG: Twas yours the grateful town to save
29. ARTZPL_150426_135.JPG: Veteran Leadership
30. ARTZPL_150426_141.JPG: September 12-14, 1814
31. ARTZPL_150426_143.JPG: O, say can you see by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming? And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? -- First verse of Francis Scott Key's Star-Spangled Banner, Baltimore, September 1814.
32. ARTZPL_150426_154.JPG: Restoring National Pride
33. ARTZPL_150426_159.JPG: O' Say Can You See -- A Bicentennial Commemoration
34. ARTZPL_150426_170.JPG: Preserved us a Nation
35. ARTZPL_150426_173.JPG: Patriotic Tune
36. ARTZPL_150426_176.JPG: A Most Superb and Splendid Ensign
37. ARTZPL_150426_186.JPG: Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand Between their loved home and the war's desolation! Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation. Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, And this be our motto: "In God is our trust." And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave! -- Final verse of Francis Scott Key's Star-Spangled Banner, Baltimore, September 1814
38. ARTZPL_150426_191.JPG: Join Us Maryland is throwing a Star-Spangled celebration that you don't want to miss. Sing the National Anthem in the city where it was born. Help us unfurl our 15-star flag. Fall in for field drills. Scramble up the ramparts. Help us raise our sails. Become a Citizen-Soldier in the land of the free and the home of the brave. You will find plenty to do for the entire family along the Star-Spangled Banner National Historic Trail, a permanent legacy of the bicentennial, and by visiting www.StarSpangled200.org
39. ARTZPL_150426_214.JPG: Pay Attention! -- There Are Things ll Around Us With Great Beauty and Meaning by Gary Schlappal
40. ARTZPL_150426_223.JPG: Blue Ribbon Through Frederick by Rose M. Hahn
41. ARTZPL_150426_240.JPG: The Reader by Peter and Richard Markey
42. ARTZPL_150426_247.JPG: Allegory by Bart Walter
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2015 photos: I retired from the US Census Bureau in god-forsaken Suitland, Maryland on my 58th birthday in May. Yee ha! Trips this year: a quick trip to Florida. two Civil War Trust conferences (Raleigh, NC and Richmond, VA), and my 10th consecutive San Diego Comic-Con trip (including Los Angeles). Ego Strokes: Carolyn Cerbin used a Kevin Costner photo in her USA Today article. Miss DC pictures were used a few times in the Washington Post. Equipment this year: I mostly used my Fuji XS-1 camera but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000. Number of photos taken this year: just over 550,000.
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