(WAR OF 1812) Baltimore Patriot and Evening Advertiser

Sale 2273 - Lot 342

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(WAR OF 1812.) Baltimore Patriot and Evening Advertiser. Letterpress broadside extra, 15 x 10 1/2 inches; disbound on right edge. Baltimore, MD, "Tuesday noon," 30 August [1814]

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Issued during the brief interlude between the fall of Washington and the bombardment of Baltimore's Fort McHenry, and contains several foreboding items about the anticipated assault. A notice from Baltimore's Committee of Vigilance and Safety urges local citizens not to divulge any information about troop movements in their private correspondence, and the fate of a captured Virginia town is held up to inspire resistance: "The demands made by the British on the city of Alexandria [are] still more humiliating than we have been led to believe or anticipate." Baltimore would survive the rockets' red glare just two weeks later.