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Show ' Maryland In History. The city of Baltimore was founded tn 1728, Frederick (n 1745 and George- town In 1701. Maryland played an honorable hon-orable part In the Revolutionary war, and In 1763 congress met nj Annapolis, where, on December 23, after the conclusion con-clusion of peace, Washington resigned his commission as commander In chief. In the war of 1812 the state suffered severely. Fort McHenry was bombarded by tho English fleet In September, 1814, tlilsbottle beng the occasion for the writing of "The Stnr- ' Spangled Banner" by Francis Scott i Key. |