Battle of Bladensburg
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The Battle of Bladensburg, also known as the Bladensburg Races, took place on August 24, 1814, during the Chesapeake campaign of the War of 1812 at Bladensburg, Maryland. It has been described as "the
Major-General Robert Ross, the British commander at Bladensburg
Brigadier General William H. Winder, the American commander at the Battle of Bladensburg and nephew to Levin Winder, the governor of Maryland
A rocket launched from a tripod
Commodore Joshua Barney, U.S. Navy commander of the Chesapeake Bay Flotilla, whose sailors and Marines' artillery battery briefly held off the British advance on the upper hill of present-day Fort Lincoln Cemetery
Major-General Robert Ross was a British Army officer who served in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812.
The Battle of Alexandria, which Ross fought in
Portrait of Ross at the White House, by Dennis Jarvis
Burning of Washington, 1814