Kandahar Massacre (2012)

Little boats will vie for space during Sailabration

2012-06-12 15:35:00

For folks who want to partake in Sailabration by water this weekend, expect tight quarters. "An unprecedented number of boats are anticipated. We could have thousands of recreational boaters all trying to come to one location," said Coast Guard Cmdr....

On Flag Day, inspiration abounds

2012-06-14 17:08:14

For the better part of a decade, Jill Crowther-Peters has portrayed the widowed seamstress who stitched the Star-Spangled Banner, but on Thursday she had the chance to really feel what it was like to be her. Crowther-Peters, dressed as 19th-century...

At 50, Arundel historical society celebrates one of its biggest accomplishments

2012-06-10 13:38:00

The Benson-Hammond House stands as a tranquil oasis amid Linthicum's bustling air and ground traffic. The 200-year-old mansion-turned-museum sits on about 3 acres, surrounded by BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport. That it escaped the wrecking ball and has...

New American citizens take their oath

2012-06-14 15:25:00

The white-haired Bosnian grabbed his certificate of citizenship with two hands, held it over his head and smiled broadly. A South Korean woman bowed. A long-haired woman from Ecuador posed like a beauty queen. They were some of the 40 immigrants (from 31...

Sailors, Marines make 1812 county landmark shipshape

2012-06-15 17:02:01

Military past and present came together Friday morning on a patch of farmland that played a key role in the defense of Baltimore during the War of 1812. Armed with the weapons of landscaping, 55 sailors and Marines in town for the Star-Spangled...

For a time, Fort McHenry stood empty as its strategic importance was diminished

2012-06-17 00:00:00

The quickly constructed, earthen star-shaped Fort Whetstone, built in 1776, was the first fortification to occupy the site where Fort McHenry now stands. The city's vulnerability to a waterborne attack was exposed in the spring of 1776 when the British...

1812 bicentennial celebration kicks off in city with a loud boom

2012-06-05 16:13:00

Amid a flurry of international flags, thunderous fireworks and rowdy pirates Tuesday, Baltimore invited the world to its star-spangled salute to the bicentennial of the War of 1812 that starts next week. State and local officials gathered to publicize...

Historians fret fate of War of 1812 sites

2012-05-27 13:15:00

On a grassy hill a mile west of the Patuxent River, historian Ralph Eshelman can see the same bucolic view of fields and placid water anxious British soldiers likely saw when they landed in the summer of 1814 — the first stop in their campaign to...

Battered Baltimore buoy gets some Sailabration love

2012-06-13 06:17:00

It’s a much-battered part of the Baltimore Harbor scenery, bobbing in the water just above the Key Bridge on the way to the Inner Harbor. Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of boats—including Tall Ships and Navy warships--will pass by the Francis...

1812: Our first war of choice

2012-05-24 09:26:00

In this bicentennial year of the start of the War of 1812, the StarSpangledBaltimore.com website tells us: "The War of 1812 represents what many see as the definitive end of the American Revolution. A new nation, widely regarded as an upstart,...

Preventive wars are tricky to judge in retrospect

2012-05-31 00:00:00

As David Swanson points out in his recent article, the War of 1812 was indeed senseless, born of wanton stupidity ("America's first war of choice: 1812). It served no useful purpose, local battle glories notwithstanding. Not all wars are like that,...

Star-Spangled Sailabration kicks off at Inner Harbor

2012-06-13 17:03:00

It took 200 years, but the oft-forgotten War of 1812 got some attention Wednesday. A flotilla of more than 40 ships representing a dozen nations glided under the Key Bridge and into Baltimore Harbor to launch the commemoration of the conflict that gave...

On March 11, a United States Army soldier named Robert Bales allegedly killed 16 Afghan civilians in a drunken terror, an incident that has since been referred to as the Kandahar massacre. On March 23, he was formally charged with 17 counts of murder and six counts of assault and attempted murder.

2012-12-11 05:05:05

Guard, performing as the U.S. Corps of Artillery stand back after firing a 6-pound cannon as the U.S.S. Fort McHenry leads the flotilla of ships past Fort McHenry.

2012-06-13 00:00:00

History came alive at the Maryland Historical Society, at the Society's "Our Flag Was Still There: The Bicentennial Gala of the War of 1812" -- thanks to the museum and some of its guests.

2012-06-09 00:00:00