The Star Spangled Banner

The Star Spangled Banner

Francis Scott Key

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• Caption: Francis Scott Key
• Francis Scott Key was born in Maryland in 1779. He studied at home and later became a lawyer. When Francis wrote the Star Spangled Banner, in 1814, the USA were fighting against Britain.

The war of 1812

• The British captured Washington DC, burnt the White House and kidnapped a few people.
• One of the people was a friend of Francis: he was held as a prisoner on a ship about eight miles from Fort McHenry.
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Fort McHenry

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• Caption: Fort Mc Henry
• Fort McHenry belonged to the United States and, therefore, the flag of the United States waved on its ramparts.
• At that time, it had fifteen stripes and fifteen stars, one for every state in the union.

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• When Francis Scott Key got to the ship to talk to the British and to try and release his friend, the Battle for Fort McHenry began.
• He watched from the ship and saw that the American flag did not come down during the fight,
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• So he wrote this poem that later became the American National Anthem.
• The anthem was voted on by Congress to be the National Song (Anthem) of the USA in 1931 when the President was Herbert Hoover.
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• Caption: President Hoover

The Star Spangled Banner - Lyrics

• (The Defense of Fort Mchenry)
• September 20, 1814
• By Francis Scott Key
• Oh, say can you see, by the dawn's early light,
• What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
• Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight,
• O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
• And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
• Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
• O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
• O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

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• American National Anthem - "The Star Spangled Banner" (EN) (Embed)