Francis Scott Key's "Defense of Fort McHenry" was put to music to create The Star Spangled Banner.
Baltimore MD
1814The lyrics come from "The Defence of Fort McHenry", written in 1814 by Francis Scott Key after witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry by the British Royal Navy ships in Chesapeake Bay during the Battle of Fort McHenry in the War of 1812.
Dick
1872
Francis Scott Key's "Defense of Fort McHenry" was put to music to create The Star Spangled Banner.
Fort McHenry
Baltimore MD
1814The lyrics come from "The Defence of Fort McHenry", written in 1814 by Francis Scott Key after witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry by the British Royal Navy ships in Chesapeake Bay during the Battle of Fort McHenry in the War of 1812.
Dick
Fort McHenry is located in Baltimore.
Fort McHenry was created in 1925.
1814The lyrics come from "The Defence of Fort McHenry", written in 1814 by Francis Scott Key after witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry by the British Royal Navy ships in Chesapeake Bay during the Battle of Fort McHenry in the War of 1812.
1872
Fort McHenry National MONUMENT is within the city limits of Baltimore in the state of Maryland.
The original lyrics for the Star Spangled Banner came from the poem "The Defense of Fort McHenry" written by Francis Scott Key in 1814.
After the British Navy burned Washington D.C. to the ground they needed to defeat Fort McHenry. But Fort McHenry stood after the battle.