“The Star-Spangled Banner” wasn’t actually adopted ... The next morning, he looked out and saw the flag rising above Fort McHenry, which moved him to write the poem. Clague: He can’t ...

George Armistead to make a flag for Fort McHenry. This flag, which measured 30 feet by 42 feet, was the original Star-Spangled Banner that inspired the lines of Francis Scott Key’s renowned poem ...

Francis Scott Key witnessed the bombardment from a ship in Baltimore harbor and expressed his gratitude and relief at the victory in a poem that became "The Star-Spangled Banner." Following the Battle ...

Texas High School Tiger band performed "The Star-Spangled Banner" at Fort McHenry in Baltimore, Maryland. The tune was ...

Re “Remove ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ as national ... bombs bursting in air” and still the American flag was visible over the “ramparts” of Fort McHenry, at great peril to those ...

“The Star-Spangled Banner” was composed by Francis Scott Key, a Maryland attorney, slaveholder and poet, who was inspired by watching soldiers raise the flag over Baltimore’s Fort McHenry ...

Fort McHenry, in Baltimore ... of the fort that Francis Scott Key was inspired to write "The Star-Spangled Banner," the poem that would eventually be set to the tune of the The Anacreontic ...