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State of Maryland Maryland was one of the first 13 Colonies. Cecil Calvert was Lord Baltimore 2. He created the colony of Maryland. Cecil Calvert was an English colonizer who was the first proprietor of the Maryland Colony. He received proprietorship in 1632 that was intended for his father George Calvert, the First Lord Baltimore. He died shortly before he was granted. Cecil governed Maryland for 42 years. He also was the governor of Newfoundland. He died in England on November 30, 1675 when he was 70 years old. During a battle of the war in 1812 and 1814 the British tried to capture Baltimore to open the water route to the city the British had to capture Fort McHenry. The British had mortar rounds up to 4,000 yards twice the range of the guns on the fort. Through the night as Fort McHenry was being bombarded by the British. Francis Scott Key was observing, fearing that the fort wouldn’t withstand such a sustained attack. When the bombardment finally stopped early next morning Francis Scott Key saw that the flag still stood so he quickly penned down the first verse of the Star Spangled Banner. The Star Spangled Banner became our National Anthem on March 3, 1931 nearly 117 years later.

Maryland’s eastern and western shore embraces the Chesapeake Bay which is the home to the famous blue crab. The Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary, a body of water where fresh and salt water mix in the United States. It lies off the Atlantic Ocean and is surrounded by Maryland and Virginia and has more than 150 rivers and streams that drain into the bay. The Inner Harbor in Baltimore Maryland is a major sea port of the United States. The United States Naval Academy a four-year coeducational federal service academy located in Annapolis Maryland which is the Capital of Maryland. Established in 1845 under George Bancroft, it is the second-oldest of the United States' five service academies, and educates officers for commissioning primarily into the United States Navy and the Marine Corps. Famous or well-known people from Maryland are Babe Ruth and Edgar Allen Poe. Babe Ruth was a major league baseball player from 1914 to 1935. He was a right fielder for the New York Yankees. Babe Ruth was a homerun hitter and holds numerous world records and is named the greatest baseball player in history. Edgar Allen Poe was a poet, American Writer, Editor, and literary critic. Edgar wrote many famous poems like the “The Raven” and “Tell Tale Heart”.

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