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The dawn's early light

Author: Walter Lord
Publisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.
Series: Maryland paperback bookshelf.
Edition/Format:   Book : English : Johns Hopkins paperbacks edView all editions and formats
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This book brings to life the events of the War of 1812--including the burning of Washington and the attack on Baltimore's Fort McHenry that inspired Francis Scott Key to write what would become our national anthem. The author gives readers a dramatic account of how a new sense of national identity emerged from the smoky haze of what Francis Scott Key so lyrically called "the dawn's early light".
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Walter Lord
ISBN: 9781421405476 1421405474
OCLC Number: 795241510
Notes: "Originally published by W.W. Norton & Company, 1972"--T.p. verso.
Description: 384 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Contents: Sails on the Chesapeake --
Chastise the savages --
Face to face --
Sleepless hours --
Time runs out --
Bladenburg --
Ordeal by fire --
Shock waves --
Focus on Baltimore --
North Point --
Fort McHenry --
Britain struggles with herself --
The dawn's early light.
Series Title: Maryland paperback bookshelf.
Responsibility: Walter Lord ; with a new foreword by Scott S. Sheads.

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In the summer of 1814, enemy naval and ground forces made a coordinated assault on Washington, DC, capital of the new republic, and then set their sights on Baltimore, home port to some of the most  Read more...
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Still the best account available of the two key battles of the War of 1812... brings the 1814 battles around Washington and Baltimore to life, making them seem terrifying and critical, as they must Read more...

 
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