Bladensburg, a village of Maryland, on the east branch of the Potomac, 6 miles NE. of Washington by rail. It was here that the battle which decided the fate of the capital was won by the British on the 24th August 1814.
Bladensburg
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 2: Beaugency to Cataract, p. 208
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