Like so many famous songs of yore, "The Star-Spangled Banner" started as a poem, called “The Defence of Fort McHenry.” It was written by Francis Scott Key in 1814 during the War of 1812.

Sheads, historian at Baltimore's Fort McHenry National Monument and ... conservation project that cost about $7 million, the Star-Spangled Banner, as it had become known, returns to center stage ...

His subject -- Fort McHenry the morning after the 1814 ... of two women at the Smithsonian working to restore the Star-Spangled Banner in a room with a model of a giant squid.

Francis Scott Key witnessed the bombardment from a ship in Baltimore harbor and expressed his gratitude and relief at the victory in a poem that became "The Star-Spangled Banner." Following the Battle ...

George Armistead to make a flag for Fort McHenry. This flag, which measured 30 feet by 42 feet, was the original Star-Spangled Banner that inspired the lines of Francis Scott Key’s renowned poem ...

In September 1814, during the War of 1812, British naval forces launched a relentless bombardment of Fort McHenry in ...

Boiled down to its essence, "The Star-Spangled Banner" is a song about ... horror and uncertainty that of the battle to keep Fort McHenry — and thus the City of Baltimore — from falling ...

Re “Remove ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ as national anthem ... the British sent a downpour of shells and rockets on Fort McHenry for 25 hours in September 1814. Francis Scott Key was in ...

The Star-Spangled Banner serves as the national anthem of the United States, its lyrics derived from "Defence of Fort McHenry", a poem composed by American lawyer Francis Scott Key on September 14 ...