FORT McHENRY 1988 DIG.

FORT McHENRY

MILITARY ARTIFACTS FOUND 1988

Archaeologists discovered a trench presumably used by

infantry men during 1814 Brittish attack on Baltimore and

in this trench were found a pewter button from an infantryman’s

coat and a 10 pound fragment of a British cannon ball.

A major discovery says the archaeologist in charge, Charles

Creek, who were digging to find the fort's original underground

drainage conduits. The trench is on the western flank of the fort, the

side farthest from the harbor and the British fleet.

History tells there were 600 infantrymen that would have used the

trench had the British tried to land troops.

September 13, 1814 the night of the British attack artillerymen

manned the cannon on the bastions facing the outer harbor. The

British gunboats were two miles down the Patapsco River. The troops

unable to make landing retreated , leaving four dead and two dozen

wounded.

Abstract: 11/25/18 by Harrison H. from Wilmington Morning

News, Friday , November 25, 1988 for Facebook readers and www.delmarhistory.blogspot.com.