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The Star-Spangled Banner" is the national anthem of the United States. The lyrics were written in 1814 by Francis Scott Key, a 35-year-old lawyer and amateur poet, after witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry in Baltimore, Maryland by British ships in Chesapeake Bay during the War of 1812. It became well known as a patriotic song to the tune of a popular English drinking song, "To Anacreon in Heaven." It was recognized for official use by the United States Navy (1889) and by the White House (1916), and was made the national anthem by a Congressional resolution on March 3, 1931. Although the song has four verses, only the first is commonly sung today.
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The Star-Spangled Banner is an artifact. It is a flag that a woman named Mary Young Pickersgill made in 1813. She made it with 15 stripes and 15 stars. She included one stripe and one star for each of the 15 states that made up the United States in 1813. U.S. soldiers raised this flag to show that they had won an important battle in 1814. A man named Francis Scott Key saw the flag after the battle.
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The Star-Spangled Banner ("La stelplena standardo") estas la oficiala nacia himno de Usono. Tekston verkis Francis Scott Key je la 20-a de septembro, 1814, dum la defendado de Fortikaĵo McHenry. La Esperantan tradukon verkis William George Adams
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"The Star-Spangled Banner" is celebrating another birthday. It was 190 years ago this week -- during the Battle of Baltimore -- that Francis Scott Key wrote the lyrics that later became the U.S. national anthem.
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"The Star-Spangled Banner" was written by Key, a Washington attorney, during the War of 1812. On the night of Sept. 13, 1814, he watched an attack by the British navy at Fort McHenry. When dawn broke, Key was expecting to find Baltimore under British control, but was stunned to see a battered American flag waving in the sunrise. He was so inspired he wrote the poem "In Defense of Fort McHenry," which later became known as The Star Spangled Banner when it was set to an adaptation of the tune, "To Anacreon in Heaven," attributed to John Stafford Smith. It became America's national anthem in 1931.
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The U.S. National Anthem, The Star-Spangled Banner, was written in 1814 by Francis Scott Key. Key was sent to the British fleet in Chesapeake Bay during the War of 1812 to secure the release of Dr. William Beanes on September 13, 1814. Beanes was captured by the British during their raid on Washington D.C. Beanes, a local official in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, had arrested two drunken British soldiers. When one escaped, a small force came to release the second, and arrested Beanes. Key was enlisted by the residents of Upper Marlboro to retrieve Beanes, who, as a non-combatant, had no reason for military arrest.
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