The Bombardment of Baltimore

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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History, Society & Culture

4.2 • 24.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2010

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Years after the American Revolution, Britain and the United States were still locked in conflict. Listen in as Katie and Sarah explore the British bombardment of Baltimore in 1814 -- and how it inspired a lawyer named Francis Scott Key -- in this podcast.

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1:02.0	Welcome to Stuff You missed in History Class from How StuffWorks.com.
1:15.6	Hello and welcome to the podcast. I'm Katie Lambert.
1:16.6	And I'm Sarah Doughty.
1:18.6	And contrary to our title, the bombardment of Baltimore, we are not starting off on a battlefield,
1:23.6	as you might think, but rather on a brewery floor in Baltimore where several women were
1:29.1	piecing together a flag.
1:31.1	Yeah, that was Baltimore flagmaker and widow, Mary Pickersgill, and she had gotten the order
1:36.5	for the flag in July of 1813 from Major George Armistead.
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