. National star-spangled banner centennial, Baltimore, Maryland, September 6 to 13, 1914 . lors Rights. Captain Porter left New York a few days after CommodoreRodgers. Soon after leaving Sandy Hook he captured severalEnglish merchant vessels, making trophy bonfires out of mostof them. One night, a little later, he chased a fleet of Britishtransports convoyed by a frigate and bomb vessel. Withoutattracting the attention of the rest of the fleet, the Essexcaptured one of the transports, with one hundred and fifty in the war Commodore Porter made one of the mostremarkable cruises on rec
. National star-spangled banner centennial, Baltimore, Maryland, September 6 to 13, 1914 . lors Rights. Captain Porter left New York a few days after CommodoreRodgers. Soon after leaving Sandy Hook he captured severalEnglish merchant vessels, making trophy bonfires out of mostof them. One night, a little later, he chased a fleet of Britishtransports convoyed by a frigate and bomb vessel. Withoutattracting the attention of the rest of the fleet, the Essexcaptured one of the transports, with one hundred and fifty in the war Commodore Porter made one of the mostremarkable cruises on record. Manned by a Chesapeake crew, the Constitution, betterknown as Old Ironsides, captured the first and thiid Britishfrigates taken in the war. On July I 2, the Constitution, witha new crew, sailed from Annapolis, Maryland. In thirty min-utes, August 19, she destroyed the famous Guerriere, takenfrom Napoleon by Lord Nelson at the Battle of the Nile, inI 798. After a fierce fight, December 29, the same crew tookthe frigate Java, with the outgoing Governor of Bombay andall his staff. 15. © Hcrris izT Kiiinj; ADMIRAL GEORGE DEWEY W. W. WOTHERSPOON of the United States Navy Chief of Staff United States Army Honorary Vice-Presidents of Centennial Commission STAR-SPANGLED OFFICIAL PROGRAMME CENTENN^ Commodore Stephen Decatur, Jr., a native of Berlin, Mary-land, in command of the United States, captured the secondBritish frigate, the Macedonian, October 25, after a con-flict that lasted two hours. Decaturs subsequent career addedluster to his renown as the conqueror of the Macedonian. From Maryland, and chiefly from Baltimore, more officers,ships and seamen went out than from any other State. Of thetwo hundred and forty officers of the American Navy, Mary-land furnished forty-six. This was more than twice thenumber given by any one State, except Virginia, which sup-plied forty-two officers. Sixty-one privateers were sent out from Baltimore, while thenumber from Maryland to
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