Historic marker, Fort Howard

ID: 1557 ~ Source: ~ Creator: David Robert Crews ~ Date: 2013 September 8
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Historic marker, Fort Howard
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By Eli Pousson
On the morning of September 12, 1814, five thousand British troops landed outside of Baltimore and marched on the city of Baltimore with a plan to capture the city. Major General Robert Ross, a veteran of the Napoleonic Wars who had burned the White鈥�