. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . rmy caused the venerablephysician to order their detention. Learn-ing of this some of the British officers, byway of retaliation, brought about hisarrest. He was carried aboard a Britishship. The news that Dr. Beanes wasa prisonerspread rap- idly. One of hisfriends wentto the homeof FrancisScott Key,at George-town, andrequested theyoung lawyerto go with aflag - of - truceand ask forthe release ofthe gavehis consentand orderswere issuedthat theMinden,used by theUnited StatesGovernmentfor the trans-fer of prison-ers, be maderea
. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . rmy caused the venerablephysician to order their detention. Learn-ing of this some of the British officers, byway of retaliation, brought about hisarrest. He was carried aboard a Britishship. The news that Dr. Beanes wasa prisonerspread rap- idly. One of hisfriends wentto the homeof FrancisScott Key,at George-town, andrequested theyoung lawyerto go with aflag - of - truceand ask forthe release ofthe gavehis consentand orderswere issuedthat theMinden,used by theUnited StatesGovernmentfor the trans-fer of prison-ers, be madeready. The Min-den was thenlying at Bal-timore. Key came to this city and went aboard came up with the British fleetin the lower Chesapeake. Keys mis-sion was made known. General Rossand Admiral Cockbuin, in strong terms,spoke against the release of Dr. being informed of his many kindacts toward British officers who had beenwounded, they relented. Having decided to attack Baltimore,they detained the Americans. The fleet. FRANCIS SCOTT KEY headed up the Chesapeake. As thevessels entered the Patapsco, Key, and Colonel Skinner were trans-ferred from the British ship to theMinden. A guard of British marineswas sent aboard the flag-of-truce ship toprevent the patriots from going Minden was anchored north ofthe present ship channel, some distance from what isnow Dundalk,BaltimoreCounty. From thedecks of theMindenKey and hiscompanionswatched thebombard-ment. Asnight fell thefuiy of theattack in-creased. Atmidnight1,250 pickedmen were sentfrom the fleetin barges, withscaling lad-ders and otherimplementsfor stormingthe fort. Un-der cover ofdarkness theypassed .tothe south andapproachedFort Cov-ington andWebsters six-gun the purpose of examining the shoresthey threw up rockets. This gave thealarm. A large hay stack was set afireby the Americans. As its glow revealedthe British boats, Fort McHenry and thetwo redoubts opened a terrific fir
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