After spending a few days on Long Island, we drove south towards Tennessee (where my mom, brother and SIL live), passing through The Appalachians. We drove through Baltimore and spend a few hours at Fort McHenry. During the War of 1812, this was a very important defensive fort for the United States, and it's been restored to it's original condition. There were quite a few additional buildings here during WWI that were used for hospitals and offices, but they were torn down in the 1920's.
Francis Scott Key wrote the US National Anthem, Star Spangled Banner, while on a ship in the harbor after a particularly brutal shelling of the fort by the British.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Mchenry
I took quite a few pictures here, I'll just share the best ones! They've restored the barracks, and there are a few exhibits of how life was at the time. I've included a few for you Sharpe fans-notice the Shako and rifles!
This is a model of the fort inside the visitor's center.
An embankment....
Entrance to the barracks area of the Fort.
One of the cells in the guard house/prison where prisoners of war were held during the Civil War.
Inside the junior officers' quarters.
Powder magazine...
Typical uniform from 1812.
An actual Congreve Rocket...made famous in Sharpe's Enemy and Waterloo! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congreve_rocket
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