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The War of 1812? What a bizarre thing to commemorate. If anything it was a draw and I say that as a Canadian. The USA were the aggressors and never got anythin
by dghughes 3y ago
The War of 1812? What a bizarre thing to commemorate.
If anything it was a draw and I say that as a Canadian. The USA were the aggressors and never got anything so really it was a loss for the US.
- rocket_surgeron 3y agoMaryland put "War of 1812" on the plates because of the Battle of Baltimore, specifically the siege of Fort McHenry, which inspired Marylander Francis Scott Key to write the poem that would later become the national anthem. Fort McHenry is in the lower left of the license plate. The star spangled banner flies above it. The "bombs bursting in air" are the fireworks. It doesn't commemorate the war, it commemorates the anthem, it just says "War of 1812" because that's when the event occurred. It was a terrible design but I've got amateur radio plates so I avoided it.