Forces commanded by Andrew Jackson fought the British in the Louisiana port city in the last standoff of the War of 1812 Sonja Anderson How the flag that flew proudly over Fort McHenry in ...

This flag, which measured 30 feet by 42 feet ... 13, 1814, two years since the onset of the War of 1812, a fleet of British Royal Navy vessels lingered in Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay.