America Comes of Age - Six Weeks that Saved the Nation
ON September 15, 1814 Francis Scott Key awoke to see the American flag still flying over Ft. McHenry during the British siege of Baltimore. Steve Vogel's comprehensive, thoroughly enjoyable "Through the Perilous Fight: Six Weeks that Saved the Nation" tells of the nefarious British Adm Cockburn, the invasion of Washington, burning of the Capital and attempted attack on a well defended Baltimore. Ft McHenry flew the two American flags made by local Mary Pickersgill, at the direction of Fort Commander Maj George Armistead.
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Engaging, character-driven narrative, with battle-by-battle descriptions, great maps of the British maneuvers by sea, the attack on D.C and final retreat at Baltimore.