Painting of the death of British General Ross at the Battle of Baltimore. Chicago History Museum/UIG/Getty Images. The Battle of Baltimore in September 1814 is best remembered for one aspect of the fighting, the bombardment of Fort McHenry by British warships, which was immortalized in the Star-Spangled Banner.
The most popular and successful of her novels since Frankenstein,Lodore was the first of Shelley's novels to have a sentimental, happy ending. Ignored by her mother, the heroine, Ethel, is taken to America by her father, Lord Lodore, and is left alone when he is killed in a duel.
Bram Stoker's Dracula novel was published in Romanian for the first time in 1990. Count Dracula, a fictional character in the Dracula novel, was inspired by one of the best-known figures of Romanian history, Vlad Dracula, nicknamed Vlad Tepes (Vlad the Impaler), who was the ruler of Walachia at various times from 1456-1462.