On the night of September 13-14, 1814, British Admiral George Cockburn tried to take this fort but failed
... After a long night, he was elated to see that the fort guarding 
Baltimore ... What the Americans had failed to take into account was the 
attractiveness of ... Ross and his British navy counterpart, Rear Admiral George 
Cockburn, arrived in... [DOC] [TLE] The Battle for Baltimore | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American ... [PAR] By early 1814 the British had won great victories in Europe over Napoleon's 
regime, ... British warships and thousands of troops to cross the Atlantic to take 
revenge on the ... That advantage led the British admiral George Cockburn to 
plan attacks on ... On the night of September 1314, the warships bombarded the 
fort with... [DOC] [TLE] The War in the Chesapeake - Boundless [PAR] The British went up the Chesapeake to attack Washington, D.C., famously ...