This Day in History: Our National Anthem

ILLUSTRATIONS: (1) Sewing the flag that flew over Fort McHenry, inspiring Francis Scott Key to write "The Star-Spangled Banner." (2) A British squadron assembles off Fort McHenry and begins to bombard it. (3) Artillery at Fort McHenry fires on British ships in Baltimore Harbor. (4) Francis Scott Key observes the British bombardment of Fort McHenry. (5) Raising the huge flag at Fort McHenry before the British attack. (6) Francis Scott Key observes Fort McHenry's flag still flying at dawn on 14 Sept. 1814.


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GREAT History Share, TY Brother! I learned something, I knew the flag was oversized, but didn't know the stars were 24 inches across, interesting fact.

To Anacreon in Heaven
English drinking song
In The Star-Spangled Banner: Origin of the melody
…taken from the song “To Anacreon in Heaven,” which first surfaced about 1776 as a club anthem of the Anacreontic Society, an amateur mens’ music club in London. Written by British composer John Stafford Smith—whose identity was discovered only in the 1970s by a librarian in the music division…