Fort McHenry Stamp-- Part 2: Twenty Stamps on Sheet

There are twenty stamps on the sheet.

On the front is written:

The War of 1812: FORT McHENRY

In the summer of 1814, Britain launched an offensive "into the very heart of America," as one British officer put it.

Burning the White House and other public buildings in the nation's capital in August, the British then sailed up the Chesapeake Bay to attack Baltimore, Maryland.

--Brock-Perry