SEE ALSO-RECINOSO SPANISH MORTAR WAR MEMORIAL

SEE ALSO-RECINOSO SPANISH MORTAR WAR MEMORIAL PLAQUE

SEE ALSO-ROGERS BASTION WAR MEMORIAL CANNON

SEE ALSO-ROGERS BASTION WAR MEMORIAL CANNON PLAQUE

THE LIBERTY SHIP SS JOHN W. BROWN IS A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO BUILT THE GREAT LIBERTY FLEET AND TO THE MERCHANT SEAMEN AND NAVAL ARMED GUARD WHO SAILED THE SHIPS ACROSS THE OCEANS OF THE WORLD DURING WORLD WAR II.

SEE ALSO-COAST GUARD TANEY-WHEC-37 MEMORIAL SHIP

SEE ALSO-COAST GUARD TANEY-WHEC-37 MEMORIAL SHIP PLAQUE SEE ALSO-COAST GUARD TANEY-WHEC-37 MEMORIAL SHIP BATTLE HONORS

SEE ALSO-COAST GUARD TANEY-WHEC-37 MEMORIAL SHIP

JOHN EAGER HOWARD ENTERED THE REVOLUTIONARY ARMY AT AGE 24, AND SOON GAINED MILITARY FAME FOR HIS SKILLFUL AND HEROIC USE OF THE BAYONET IN THE BATTLE OF COWPENS.

IN 1777 LAFAYETTE CROSSED THE SEAS WITH FRENCH VOLUNTEERS TO BRING FRATERNAL ASSISTANCE TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WHO WERE FIGHTING FOR THEIR NATIONAL FREEDOM.

TEXT ON TOP OF MEMORIAL "THE KISS OF THE SUN FOR PARDON, THE SONG OF THE BIRDS FOR MIRTH, ON IS NEARER GOD'S HEART IN A GARDEN, THAN ANYWHERE ELSE ON EARTH. GROW OLD ALONG WITH ME THE BEST IS YET TO BE.

"BUT THERE UPON THE SODDEN EARTH HE BIDES HIS LAST LONG SLEEP, TO SLEEP UN-NAMED, UNKNOWN, UNTIL GODS ANGEL ON THE WHIRLWIND RIDES TO CLAIM HIS OWN."

THIS MEMORIAL IS ALSO DEDICATED TO ALL MARYLANDERS KILLED IN THE WAR WITH MEXICO.

COMMEMORATES THE BATTLE OF BALTIMORE AND HONORS THOSE WHO FOUGHT AND DIED IN THE BATTLE DURING THE WAR OF 1812.