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Originally Posted by Rockstar

Many of us are gearing up around the Tide Water area for this 2012 Opsail and 1812 festivities. I live on an island in the Chesapeake Bay where the Brits staged the invasion of Baltimore from. Fort Chessamessex used to be on the south end of the island along with HMS Albion nearby. But since beach errosion has claimed much of the island it's no longer there.


Been busy setting up some displays at our museum. Neat to come across old news paper clippings and other tid bits of history.


“The American Navy must be annihilated – her arsenals and dock-yards must be consumed; and the turbulent inhabitants of Baltimore must be tamed with the weapons which shook the wooden turrents of Copenhagen [in 1807]… All the panting about maritime rights, with which the Americans have recently nauseated the ears of every cabinet minister in Europe, must be silenced by the strong and manly voice of reason- the utima ration regum, paradoxial as it may seem, is here the only remedy – and America must be BEATEN INTO SUBMISSION! The law of nations have been always the law of the strongest – England is, therefore the DICTATOR of the maritime laws of the civilized world, and long may she retain her superiority! “ London Evening Star, September 1813.”

That is great.