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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint%20Michaels,%20Maryland '''St. Michaels, Maryland'''] is known as "The Town That Fooled The British" by placing lanterns in trees and on ship masts to cause the British to overshoot the town during an early morning attack.<ref name="Chesapeake Legends">Eshelman, Ralph E.; Sheads, Scott S. (2013). Chesapeake Legends and Lore from the War of 1812. The History Press. ISBN 978-1-62619-071-9</ref>
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint%20Michaels,%20Maryland '''St. Michaels, Maryland'''] is known as "The Town That Fooled The British" during the War of 1812 by placing lanterns in trees and on ship masts to cause the British to overshoot the town during an early morning attack. This story began with one of St. Michaels favorite sons, Thomas Kemp, Jr. (1800-1890), a thirteen year old boy at the time of the 1813 British attack. Seventy-three years later in 1886 during an interview for the Baltimore American newspaper, three years before his death, Kemp stated, “Lights were placed at night upon trees and masts of vessels.” His father, Captain Joseph Kemp, commanded the St. Michaels Patriotic Blues, who garrisoned a small cannon battery during the 1813 attack.<ref name="Chesapeake Legends">Eshelman, Ralph E.; Sheads, Scott S. (2013). Chesapeake Legends and Lore from the War of 1812. The History Press. ISBN 978-1-62619-071-9</ref>

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St. Michaels, Maryland is known as "The Town That Fooled The British" during the War of 1812 by placing lanterns in trees and on ship masts to cause the British to overshoot the town during an early morning attack. This story began with one of St. Michaels favorite sons, Thomas Kemp, Jr. (1800-1890), a thirteen year old boy at the time of the 1813 British attack. Seventy-three years later in 1886 during an interview for the Baltimore American newspaper, three years before his death, Kemp stated, “Lights were placed at night upon trees and masts of vessels.” His father, Captain Joseph Kemp, commanded the St. Michaels Patriotic Blues, who garrisoned a small cannon battery during the 1813 attack.[1]

  1. ↑ Eshelman, Ralph E.; Sheads, Scott S. (2013). Chesapeake Legends and Lore from the War of 1812. The History Press. ISBN 978-1-62619-071-9
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