Fort McHenry

Examples of Fort McHenry in the following topics:

• The War in the Chesapeake

  • The British also attempted to attack Baltimore by sea on September 13 but were unable to reduce Fort McHenry at the entrance to Baltimore Harbor, due to recent fortifications.
  • The Battle of Fort McHenry was no battle at all.
  • All the lights were extinguished in Baltimore the night of the attack, and the fort was bombarded for 25 hours.
  • The only light was given off by the exploding shells over Fort McHenry, illuminating the flag that was still flying over the fort.
  • Describe the burning of Washington, D.C. and the subsequent battles of Baltimore and Fort McHenry

• The Fugitive Slave Act

  • Two prominent instances in which abolitionists set free captured fugitives include John McHenry in Syracuse, New York, in 1851, and Shadrach Minkins in Boston of the same year.

• The Election of 1932

  • However, his campaign managers, James Farley and Louis McHenry Howe, convinced House Speaker John Nance Garner of Texas to drop out of the race.

• The Treaty of Fort Stanwix

  • The Treaty of Fort Stanwix was one of several treaties signed between Native Americans and the United States after the American Revolution.
  • The Treaty of Fort Stanwix was a treaty signed in October 1784 between the United States and its Native Americans at Fort Stanwix (located in present-day Rome, New York).
  • 1785 Treaty of Fort McIntosh with Wyandotte, Delaware, Chippewa and Ottawa leaders for lands in Ohio
  • 1786 Treaty of Fort Finney with Shawnee leaders for portions of Ohio

• Fort Ticonderoga

  • After seizing Ticonderoga, a small detachment captured the nearby Fort Crown Point on May 11.
  • The French had destroyed the powder magazine when they abandoned the fort, and the fort had fallen further into disrepair since then.
  • After the war began with the Battles of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775, the British General Thomas Gage realized the fort would require fortification; simultaneously, several colonists had the idea of capturing the fort.
  • Eventually, as many as 400 men arrived at the fort, which they plundered for liquor and other provisions.
  • Washington eventually chose the young Henry Knox to transport heavy weaponry that had been captured at Fort Ticonderoga to the Continental Army camps outside of Boston.

• Basics

  • (The apostrophe stands for the MC; the slash stands for the EEC.)
  • We will just call it an exposition with two MCs.
  • This succession of small, "spinning out" modules is called Fort spinnung (Ger., "spinning out").
  • Fort spinnung is often associated with TR in general, but in a continuous exposition, the process gets out of control and fails to produce a satisfactory MC.
  • A continuous exposition may present no cadences that could be "candidates" for an MC, it may suggest the possibility of an upcoming MC that is evaded, or it may present an MC that fails to produce a satisfactory S theme (and thus is not really an MC).In each case, an EEC is achieved without first arriving at an MC and an S theme.

• The Indian Response

  • After the war, the Treaty of Fort Jackson was signed in August, 1814.
  • Red Stick leaders like William Weatherford (Red Eagle), Peter McQueen, and Menawa, were all allies of the British.
  • On August 30, 1813, Peter McQueen and William Weatherford, both of whom were Upper Creek chiefs, led an attack on Fort Mims, near Mobile, Alabama.
  • The incident became known as the Fort Mims Massacre.
  • The Red Sticks subsequently attacked other forts in the area, including Fort Sinquefield.

• The Battles: 1863–1865

  • Fort Monroe in Virginia; Fort Sumter in South Carolina; and Fort Pickens, Fort Jefferson, and Fort Taylor, all in Florida, were the remaining Union-held forts in the Confederacy, and Lincoln was determined to hold them all.
  • Under orders from Confederate President Jefferson Davis, troops controlled by the Confederate government bombarded Fort Sumter on April 12, forcing its capitulation.
  • Most Northerners rallied behind Lincoln's call for all states to send troops to recapture the forts and to preserve the Union.
  • Grant, who won victories at Forts Henry and Donelson, the Battle of Shiloh, and the Battle of Vicksburg, which cemented Union control of the Mississippi River and is considered one of the turning points of the war.

• The Dutch Empire

  • In 1609, the Dutch East India Company commissioned English explorer Henry Hudson who, in an attempt to find the fabled northwest passage to the Indies, discovered and claimed for the VOC parts of the present-day United States and Canada.
  • After some early trading expeditions, the first Dutch settlement in the Americas was founded at Fort Nassau in 1615, near present-day Albany.
  • In 1626, the Director of the Dutch West India Company, Peter Minuit, purchased the island of Manhattan from the Lenape and started the construction of Fort Amsterdam, which grew to become the main port and capital, New Amsterdam .
  • Fort Orange was renamed Fort Albany (from James's Scottish title).

• McClellan's Peninsular Campaign

  • McClellan attempted to capture Richmond in the Peninsular Campaign, but numerous sieges forced his retreat.
  • McClellan was initially successful against Confederate General Joseph E.
  • Although the president doubted the utility of the plan, he allowed McClellan to enact Urbanna and named specific officers as corps commanders to report under McClellan directly.
  • McClellan altered his plan so that his forces would land at Fort Monroe and move northwest up the Virginia Peninsula, but Congress and the press were highly critical of what was perceived as a missed opportunity to catch the Confederates in their previous positions near Washington.
  • On March 11, President Lincoln removed McClellan from his position as general chief of the army, ostensibly so McClellan could focus on the Urbanna Plan, though later in his life McClellan would argue the decision was made to ensure the failure of his campaign.