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In 1776 Maryland adopted a declaration of rights
and a state constitution and sent soldiers and
supplies to aid the
war for independence;
supposedly the high quality of its regular
“troops of the line” earned Maryland its
nickname, the Old Line State.
The U.S. Congress,
meeting at Annapolis, ratified the Treaty of
Paris ending the
Revolutionary War in 1783.
Maryland was the 7th colony to ratify the U.S.
Constitution.
The War of 1812 was marked for
Maryland by the British attack of 1814 on
Baltimore and the defense of
Fort McHenry,
immortalized in Francis Scott Key's
“Star-Spangled Banner.”
