war of 1812

Relates events of the 1814 Battle of Baltimore as seen through the eyes of twelve-year-old Caroline Pickersgill, who had worked with her family and their servants to sew the enormous flag which waved over Fort McHenry.

Young Nate Lawton, promoted to midshipman for bravery in combat aboard the "USS Constitution," bears the guilty secret that he hid for most of the battle with the "HMS Guerriere," but he gets a chance to redeem his honor when he is assigned to the "Chesapeake" just before one of the greatest engagements of the War of 1812.