Annapolis, Maryland
![Annapolis' first official flag, though not adopted until January 1965, is styled after the personal royal badge of British after whom the city was named. Resembling the [[:File:Floral Badge of Great Britain.svg|floral badge of Great Britain]], a crown hovers over a thistle (representing Scotland) and a (representing England), growing from a single stalk to portray their during Anne's reign. Vixi liber et moriar means "I have lived free and will die so".](https://hyperleap.com/images/86503d222467b354f70b2f6f3dfdc67e/200-1f8a272baa8724eb2352789a1fb46126.png)
Capital city of the U.S. state of Maryland as well as the county seat of, and only incorporated city in, Anne Arundel County.
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Chesapeake Bay
Largest estuary in the United States.
Average depth is 21 ft, reaching a maximum of 174 ft. The Bay is spanned twice, in Maryland by the Chesapeake Bay Bridge from Sandy Point (near Annapolis) to Kent Island and in Virginia by the Chesapeake Bay Bridge–Tunnel connecting Virginia Beach to Cape Charles.
St. John's College (Annapolis/Santa Fe)
St. John's College is a private liberal arts college with dual campuses in Annapolis, Maryland, and Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Severn River (Maryland)
Tidal estuary 14 mi long, located in Anne Arundel County in the U.S. state of Maryland, south of the Magothy River and north of the South River.
The river enters the Chesapeake Bay near the major port city of Annapolis, also the capital of Maryland.
United States Naval Academy
The United States Naval Academy (US Naval Academy, USNA, or Navy) is a federal service academy in Annapolis, Maryland.
Congress of the Confederation
The governing body of the United States of America from March 1, 1781, to March 4, 1789.
Based on preliminary articles with the British negotiators made on November 30, 1782, and approved by the "Congress of the Confederation" on April 15, 1783, the Treaty of Paris was further signed on September 3, 1783, and ratified by the Confederation Congress then sitting at the Maryland State House in Annapolis on January 14, 1784.
Treaty of Paris (1783)
The Treaty of Paris, signed in Paris by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States of America on September 3, 1783, officially ended the American Revolutionary War and overall state of conflict between the two countries.
The United States Congress of the Confederation ratified the Treaty of Paris on January 14, 1784, in Annapolis, Maryland, in the Old Senate Chamber of the Maryland State House, which made Annapolis the first peacetime capital of the new United States.
Anne Arundel County, Maryland
Located in the U.S. state of Maryland.
Its county seat is Annapolis, which is also the capital of the state.
Annapolis Convention (1786)
The Annapolis Convention, formally titled as a Meeting of Commissioners to Remedy Defects of the Federal Government, was a national political convention held September 11–14, 1786 at Mann's Tavern in Annapolis, Maryland, in which twelve delegates from five U.S. states (New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Virginia) gathered to discuss and develop a consensus on reversing the protectionist trade barriers that each state had erected.
Washington–Baltimore metropolitan area
Combined statistical area consisting of the overlapping labor-market region of the cities of Washington, D.C., and Baltimore, Maryland.
Annapolis, Maryland