Beanes family and townspeople called on prominent Georgetown lawyer Francis Scott Key to free the elderly doctor. He boarded a British ship September 13, 1814, to negotiate Beanes' release. An agreement was reached to release the doctor, but Key was held on the ship during the attack on Fort McHenry.
Beanes died in 1828 and is buried in a non-descript grave on a hill at the corner of Elm Street and Governor Oden Bowie Drive in Upper Marlboro in Maryland.
So, That's How It Got Written. --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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