Fort Mc Henry and Moscow, What's the Connection?

Castelnuovo (Bosnia) and Lexington (Massachusetts) · Fort Mc Henry and Moscow, What's the Connection?

They were respectively defended against the English and against Napoleon Bonaparte.

And they were so around 14th of September, Feast of the Holy Cross, two years apart.

The fire of Moscow was a catastrophic urban fire that destroyed almost all of Moscow in September 1812 during the French occupation of the city following the French invasion of Russia. The Russian troops and most of the remaining civilians had abandoned the city on 14 September 1812 just ahead of French Emperor Napoleon's troops entering the city after the Battle of Borodino.

And:

"The Star-Spangled Banner" is the national anthem of the United States. The lyrics come from the "Defence of Fort M'Henry",[2] a poem written by American lawyer Francis Scott Key on September 14, 1814, after he witnessed the bombardment of Fort McHenry by the British Royal Navy during the Battle of Baltimore in the War of 1812. Key was inspired by the large U.S. flag, with 15 stars and 15 stripes, known as the Star-Spangled Banner, flying triumphantly above the fort after the battle.

I never knew this story until one young woman, hired to sing it in English, sang "El pendón estrellado" in Spanish. Then I looked it up. On youtube.

Now, defending Fort McHenry and defending Moscow, if at all, was two very different operations. Here is Moscow, and, as mentioned, the Russians left, but what happened next is disputed:

There is disagreement among historians over the cause of the fire. One theory holds that the fire was deliberately ordered or organized by Russian authorities, particularly Governor-General Fyodor Rostopchin, as part of a scorched-earth strategy intended to deny the occupying French army shelter and supplies.

This man was father of the children's author Countess de Ségur and grandfather of the Catholic clergyman Louis-Gaston de Ségur.

Here is Fort McHenry:

The Battle of Baltimore took place between British and American forces on September 12–14, 1814, during the War of 1812. Defending American forces repulsed sea and land invasions off the busy major port city of Baltimore, Maryland, by British forces preventing the United States' third largest city at the time from falling to British forces and ending the British Chesapeake campaign.

The British and Americans first met at the Battle of North Point.[10] Though the Americans were tactically defeated and forced to retreat, the battle was a successful delaying action that inflicted significant casualties on the British including the commanding general Robert Ross, halted their advance, and allowed the defenders at Baltimore to prepare for an attack.

The resistance of Baltimore's Fort McHenry during bombardment by the Royal Navy inspired Francis Scott Key to compose the poem "Defence of Fort M'Henry", which later became the lyrics for "The Star-Spangled Banner," the national anthem of the United States.

At Fort McHenry, some 1,000 soldiers under the command of Major George Armistead awaited the British naval bombardment. Their defense was augmented by the sinking of a line of American merchant ships at the adjacent entrance to Baltimore Harbor in order to further thwart the passage of British ships.

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On the morning of September 14, the 30 ft × 42 ft (9.1 m × 12.8 m) oversized American flag, which had been made a year earlier by local flagmaker Mary Pickersgill and her 13-year-old daughter, was raised over Fort McHenry, replacing the tattered storm flag which had flown during battle. It was responded to by a small encampment of British riflemen on the right flank, who fired a round each at the sky and taunted the Americans just before they too returned to the shore line. Originally, historians said that the oversized Star Spangled Banner Flag was raised to taunt the British, but that is not the case. The oversized flag was used every morning for reveille, as was the case on the morning of September 14.

Taunt the British, it did, though. The description given elsewhere is, the flag (the storm-flag, not the oversized one) had been put back and back and back in place while Brits shot at those upholding it. Letting the flag sink would have been a sign, and that sign was not given. I'm reminded of a man who has used his blogs as a kind of flag, and who has been shot at, if not with bullets, at least with scorched earth tactics, false friendliness, denial of basic needs, like hygiene and sleep, by men who resent that blog. To whom they are what a red flag is to a bull.

It might taunt some Brits and Canadians that Mary Pickersgill's 13-year-old daughter didn't go to school but participated in sewing a flag. Just as it taunts some that Our Lady at 12 or 13 or 14 or sth was pregnant with Our Lord.

So, perhaps the connection is, Our Lord who Reigned from the Cross, didn't support fully Freemasons (a leopard head) against a Bear that had some piety, but did support their allies against a Lion that was losing its piety, quickly.

Just How Many Young-Earth Creationists Are There in the U.S.? says, c. 40 % of Americans are Young Earth Creationists. They are far fewer in the UK: After carrying out detailed face-to-face interviews with over a hundred Christians and Muslims, Unsworth designed her own survey. Of 2,116 people in Britain, she found that only 3% reject the idea that plants and animals have evolved from earlier life forms, whilst 6.8% reject the idea that humans have evolved from non-human life forms. Only 4% would qualify as young earth creationists.

Meanwhile, in France Young Earth Creationism is actively opposed, as per Antoine Bret: I became a Christian in France, without ever encountering young-earth creationism. I’d say that most Evangelicals in France (about half a million) feel uneasy about evolution, but not so much with the age of the universe. Faith and Science in France and Spain: An Interview with Antoine Bret Meanwhile, if Russians want schoolbooks that are Young Earth Creationist they don't need to resort to Harun Yahya, they have better stuff from inside. Or had, not sure how much Putin has since then discouraged it. Or Kirill.

There is also the difference that in France, Freemasons were recent usurpers of power. In the US, they were founding fathers. The only people in place to oppose England. The difference is a bit like the difference of Romulus worshipping Jupiter and of Julian the Apostate doing so. However, even in Russia, on Holy Cross day, the French were temporarily victorious, the Russian garrison withdrew from Moscow. Perhaps so that a certain Storopchyn could show Tatar cruelty in action.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Nanterre UL
St. Margaret of Scotland
10.VI.2026

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