The broad strokes of the story of the penning of the poem that became The Star-Spangled Banner are familiar to most Americans. We know that it happened during the War of 1812, and was motivated by British shelling of Fort McHenry in Baltimore’s harbor. The poem’s author, Francis Scott Key, was a lawyer living in [...]
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The Star-Spangled Banner
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