. National star-spangled banner centennial, Baltimore, Maryland, September 6 to 13, 1914 . FRANK BROWN EDWIN WARFIELD. FORMER GOVERNORS OF MARYLANDVice-Presidents of Centennial Commission ju))5r^^^g.^N^LED OFFICIAL PROGRAMME cE^^^afiV (ft approval of General Strieker and General McDonald, hadplaced the order for the flag. At her little home, House Albemarle Street, Old Town, (which still stands) shehad cut the colored sections. Owing to its dimensions the flag,in pieces, had been taken to a near-by brewery and therestretched and sewed together in a large room. Before the first streaks of


. National star-spangled banner centennial, Baltimore, Maryland, September 6 to 13, 1914 . FRANK BROWN EDWIN WARFIELD. FORMER GOVERNORS OF MARYLANDVice-Presidents of Centennial Commission ju))5r^^^g.^N^LED OFFICIAL PROGRAMME cE^^^afiV (ft approval of General Strieker and General McDonald, hadplaced the order for the flag. At her little home, House Albemarle Street, Old Town, (which still stands) shehad cut the colored sections. Owing to its dimensions the flag,in pieces, had been taken to a near-by brewery and therestretched and sewed together in a large room. Before the first streaks of dawn appeared on the twelfth, theBritish were astir. From their transports boat after boat car-ried human freight to North Point—where now stands FortHoward. Advancing into the marshes skirting the shore, theyeagerly sought the shelter afforded by high reeds. The veterans crawled cautiously to higher ground andassembled in the woods nearby. In command of the land forceswas General Sir Robert Ross, a soldier of distinction, who hadserved in Holland, Egypt and the Peninsula. At his side rodethe ranking naval off


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