The star fort whose defenders held through a 25-hour British bombardment in September 1814, so that Francis Scott Key, watching from a ship, saw the flag still there at dawn and wrote the national anthem. A national monument now, with the reports that cling to old military ground: footsteps on the ramparts, a soldier who will not stand down. Real history you can walk, on the Baltimore harbor.
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