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Fort McHenry, Baltimore, Maryland

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Posing atop the walls of Fort McHenry. From outside the fort, you can see the top of one of the brick barracks on the left, posing tourists on top of the outer wall, and the 15-star, 15-stripe flag atop the flag pole.

Fort McHenry celebrates the 200th anniversary of the defense of Baltimore in 2014. This defense, immortalized in a poem that evolved into the national anthem, The Star-Spangled Banner, saved the most important seaport in the United States at the time, and Continue reading Fort McHenry, Baltimore, Maryland→