Fort McHenry is a historical American coastal pentagonal bastion fort on Locust Point now a neighborhood of Baltimore Maryland. It is best known for its role in the War of 1812 when it successfully defended Baltimore Harbor from an attack by the British navy from the Chesapeake Bay on September 13 14 1814. In 2010 the United States Mint began issuing 56 quarter-dollar coins featuring designs depicting national parks and other national sites as part of the United States Mint America the Beautiful Quarters Program.