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While staying with friends near Lancaster, PA, we continued our U.S. history lessons with a visit to Fort McHenry in Baltimore Harbor. The fort was the key installation protecting Baltimore during the War of 1812. An overwhelming British fleet shelled the fort overnight while young lawyer Francis Scott Key, who had sailed out to negotiate […]

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