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To round out last week’s posts about Federal Hill I have one more shot.   This is the monument to Samuel Smith, who fought as a captain and leader of the revolutionary army, but who gained most of his fame as brigadier general of the Maryland Militia, which repeled the British during the Battle of Baltimore in 1812.  

Between wars he was elected a congressman as he was also elected after the war of 1812.  In the last role of his political career, he was Mayor of Baltimore.  There is/was even a Samuel Smith park in Baltimore, though its location (the triangle of land at the corner of light and pratt) is now occupied by a fountain, which is why the monument today rests in Federal Hill. 

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