> The war is prestigious to Maryland because over 3,000 militia members from Maryland, Delaware, and Pennsylvania successfully kept the worlds superpower at bay

> The war is prestigious to Maryland because over 3,000 militia members from Maryland, Delaware, and Pennsylvania successfully kept the worlds superpower at bay, saving Baltimore and probably the rest of the country. They didn't learn from it, because at the other end of the war, the British regulars were decisively handled by another ragtag group that they didn't think much of. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_New_Orleans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_New_Orleans