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Photographer: Allen C. Browne
Taken: February 8, 2013
Caption: The HMS Menelaus
Additional Description: Seen through an "excellent glass" from the State House dome on August 20, 1814, on Richard Schlecht’s Mural.

21 enslaved African Americans from Annapolis took the opportunity of the panic engendered by the British presence to escape to the Menelaus.
Submitted: February 23, 2013, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p234997
File Size: 2.427 Megabytes

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