Why did Francis Scott Key write ''The Star Spangled Banner''?

Answer 1

Key had just witnessed the night long bombardment of Fort McHenry by the British Royal Navy during the War of 1812. He wrote it because he was inspired that even though we had been bombed all through the night our flag still waved in the air.

Answer 2

Francis Scott Key wrote the "Star Spangled Banner" on a British prison ship in 1814 as he watched the bombs flying up into the air at night, saying that the Americans were free and had the "home of the brave"

Answer 3

It was through inspiration as follows.

Poet and attorney Francis Scott Key was a witness to the relentless bombing of Baltimore's Fort McHenry by the British during the War of 1812. Inspired by the sight of the battered American flag that flew over the fort throughout the conflict, he penned the lines of the future national anthem of the United States on the back of an envelope. His poem, "The Star-Spangled Banner," soon appeared in newspapers across the country and was set to the tune of a popular English drinking song. Congress officially named it the national anthem in 1931. (Biography)

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