Today, I had a letter to mail and went to the post office in Spring Grove and was able to find a flat of Fort McHenry stamps commemorating that battle in the War of 1812.
It is a very colorful stamp showing a group of artillerists around a cannon at the the fort firing at the at the British fleet with all the shells and Congreve rockets coming at them and a huge American flag flying off to the right of them.
I don't know if this is the flag that flew during the battle or the famous one that Francis Scott Key saw flying in the early morning hours of the next day.
--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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