Queen Anne's County in Maryland is planning a trail with fourteen sites stretching from Kent Island to Sudlersville. It is expected to join the new statewide Star-Spangled Banner National Historic Trail.
Originally, there were just 3 sites in the county on the National Trail, but people in Queen Anne's felt the county had more to offer. Each of the sites will have a marker explaining what happened there. Most are located between Kent Island and Queenstown to commemorate the little-known Battle of Slippery Hill.
On August 5, 1813, boats with British Marines from ships out in the Chesapeake Bay, landed at Kent Island for a march on Queenstown in order to get into a better position from which to attack Baltimore.
More to Come. --Brock-Perry
2012 marks the 200th anniversary of America's "Forgotten War," the War of 1812 that took place over three years, 1812 to 1815.
Battle of New Orleans.
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