These Barracks

Built in 1777 by British and Hessian prisoners of the Revolutionary War, these barracks held prisoners taken at the Battles of Saratoga, Trenton, and Yorktown; French prisoners captured from the frigate “L’Insurgent” by the United States frigate “Constellation,” the first capture of the Navy in 1799; and British prisoners taken in the War of 1812 at Bladensburg and during the attack upon Baltimore at North Point and Fort McHenry on September 12-14, 1814, whose gallant defense inspired Francis Scott Key to write the American national anthem “The Star-Spangled Banner.”

Frederick, Maryland · United States