The city was a site of a Battle of Baltimore during a War of 1812. After blazing Washington, D.C., a British battered Baltimore on a night of September 13, 1814. United States forces from Fort McHenry successfully safeguarded a city's bay from a British. Francis Scott Key, a Maryland lawyer, was aboard a British boat where he'd been negotiating for a recover of an American prisoner, Dr. William Beanes. Key witnessed a barrage from this boat as good as after wrote "The Star-Spangled Banner", a poem recounting a attack. Key's poem was set to a 1780 balance by British composer John Stafford Smith, as good as a Star-Spangled Banner became a central National Anthem of a United States in 1931. Following a Battle of Baltimore, a city's competition grew rapidly. The building a total of a Federally saved National Road (presently U.S. Route 40) as good as a in isolation Baltimore as good as Ohio Railroad (B&O) done Baltimore a critical shipping as good as progression core by joining a city with critical markets in a Midwest. A singular internal note proposed to take shape, as good as a singular skyline peppered with churches as good as monuments developed. Baltimore acquired a moniker, "The Monumental City" after an 1827 revisit to Baltimore by President John Quincy Adams. At an dusk duty Adams gave a following toast: "Baltimore: a Monumental City- May a days of her reserve be as moneyed as good as happy, as a days of her dangers have been perplexing as good as triumphant." Maryland didn't mutiny from a Union during a American Civil War; however, when Union soldiers marched by a city during a begin of a war, Confederate sympathizers battered a troops, that led to a Baltimore demonstration of 1861. Four soldiers as good as twelve civilians were killed during a riot, that caused Union infantry to take up Baltimore. Maryland came underneath approach emperor administration'?in part, to forestall a state from seceding'?until a finish of a fight in April 1865. Following an trade basin good known as a Panic of 1873, a Baltimore & Ohio Railroad association attempted to devaluate a workers' wages, heading to a Great Railroad Strike of 1877. On July 20, 1877, Maryland Governor John Lee Carroll called up a 5th as good as 6th Regiments of a National Guard to finish a strikes, that had disrupted sight make use of during Cumberland in horse opera Maryland. Citizens sensitive to a tyrannise workers battered a inhabitant ensure infantry as they marched from their armories in Baltimore to Camden Station. Soldiers from a 6th Regiment dismissed on a income on fibre murdering 10 as good as wounding 25. Rioters afterwards ragged B&O trains as good as burnt portions of a rail station. Order was easy in a city on July 21-22 when emperor infantry arrived to make firm tyrannise ability as good as finish a strike.