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>> nicole eustace. the book is "1812, war and the passions of patriotism." we want to thank you for joining us on american history tv. >> thank you so much for having me. thanks. you're watching american history tv which you can see every weekend here on c-span 3. this july 4th we're highlighting the war of 1812 bicentennial, taking an in-depth look at the causes and course of the little-known war that bolstered america's international credibility, fostered a new sense of patriotism and gave us our national anthem. we continue now with american artifacts. >> each week, american his...

this july 4th we're highlighting the war of 1812 by centennial taking a look at the war that bolstered america's credibility and gave us our national anthem. we continue now with american artifacts. each week american history tv's american artifacts visit historic places to learn the story of the united states through objects. in 1812, joshua barney proposed creating american barges to defend the chesapeake bay area against british ships. in august 1814, he was forced to sink his vessels to prevent their capture. a single vessel, the suspected flagship scorpian was discovered under t...

his ships, and when the british tried to take them to set them on fire, he exploded them with gun powder, which he did effectively, and it was at this point we are now where the british guide came upriver, that they can see the mast of barney's flotilla and soon afterwards saw the ships on fire and heard the explosions from the powdered kegs that were set. they went further upriver and found the fleet entirely scuttled except for one vessel that the fuse went off. they were able to capture this vessel and bring it down river with them. there's also a series of merchant vessels that m...

seniority within the navy he was made a commodore of this whole flow fill la. part of the navy, also separate from the navy. and on his first war job with the flow fill tilla. he ran into superior british ships who chased him up the patuxent river. he fought battles. at one point bottled up in saint leonard's creek and was able to fight his way out but he couldn't find his way into the bay. forced to come further and further up river. british following him, forces building until the point that he got so far up river he could not get any further up river and it was apparent that briti...

studied. >> this is the patuxent river, flows into the chesapeake bay. we'll go up river of the highway 4 bridge, and highway 4 is the actually very end of pennsylvania avenue. same pennsylvania avenue that runs from d.c. and runs up to the patuxent river. the scorpion is believed to be one mile, two miles up river from that bridge. so we're about 30 minutes from washington, d.c., 20, 25 minutes from a23457 police, maryland, and probably about 40 minutes from baltimore. in 1814, the river was deeper, perhaps wider as well. there's been a lot of sedimentation from agricultural runoff ...