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Title: National star-spangled banner centennial, Baltimore, Maryland, September 6 to 13, 1914
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: National star-spangled banner centennial commission O'Connell, Frank Albert, 1886- Coyle, William F
Subjects: Star-spangled banner (Song) Baltimore, Battle of, Baltimore, Md., 1814
Publisher: (Baltimore, Munder-Thomsen Press
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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vessels, valued at $1,289,000. When he returned to Baltimorein November this had been increased to $1,500,000, repre-senting 3,689 tons of shipping. He took two hundred andseventeen prisoners. Another rich capture v/as that of eightvessels made by the Rolla, Captain Dooley. The vesselsand cargoes were valued at $2,000,000. To the Dash, ofBaltimore, belongs the credit for the first capture made by aprivateer. She took the British schooner Whiting, withdispatches from Great Britain to the United States, in Hamp-ton Roads July 10, 1812. The fame of Baltimore ships wasspread by the exploits of Captains Coggeshall, Miller, Moon,Murphy, Stafford and others. The first news of peace was brought by a Baltimorean,Christopher Hughes, Jr., who was Secretary to the Commissionat Ghent. As soon as the treaty was signed, December 24,1814, he sailed direct for the Chesapeake and landed at An-napolis. He was the first to bring the good news to Wash-ington, arriving there before the official messengers.
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GOVERNORS OF THE EIGHTEEN STATES THAT FORMED THE UNION IN 1814 Honorary Vice-Presidents of Centennial Commission ^l sT>S.^?P^%-^LED OFFICIAL PROGRAMME cES41SlV((i^ STORY OF THE NATIONAL ANTHEM, FORTMcHENRY AND NORTH POINT. By Frank A. OConnell. ^^i^gHURCH BELLS were calling in Baltimore^^^^=^^::J0 Town Sunday, September 11, 1814, whenV///n) through the streets went the cry, The enemy isat our door! On the Court House green threecannon boomed. With martial tread and beating drums pa-triots spread the alarm. From the houses came men of allclasses, determined to protect their kin and their homes. At the mouth of the Patapsco, off North Point, twelvemiles from the city, fifty ships flying the British colors weresilhouetted agamst the eastern skies. Nine thousand strong,the invaders, representing the flower of the English Army andNavy, gazed towards the city they had termed a nest ofpirates. Lining the decks of this fleet were part of Wellingtons In-vincibles, and veterans of Nelsons vi

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