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It’s a song every American has heard countless times, but how much do you really know about our national anthem?
"Our Army manned the air, it rammed the ramparts, it took over the airports, it did everything it had to do, and at Fort McHenry, under the rocket’s red glare it had nothing but victory.
Standing on the ramparts of Fort McHenry, I could almost hear the cannons. The fort’s strategic star shape and views of the Baltimore harbor reminded me how close history feels here. What’s ...
Throughout U.S. history, the flag has not just been cloth, but an emblem — it was raised proudly over Iwo Jima, above the ramparts of Fort McHenry, on the surface of the moon. Everywhere, it stood as ...
The flag that Key saw waving above the rampart now hangs in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History; Key’s words appear on the inside flap of U.S. passports; and Fort McHenry is ...
Still, I suspect a vestige of doubt in his heart as he looked o’er the ramparts for his flag on ... in the outcome of the battle at Fort McHenry, we cannot fault our modern brothers and sisters ...
Last week the Park Service began flying the flag both night* & day over Fort McHenry’s carefully reconstructed ramparts. The fort’s custodian had certain difficulties. For one thing ...
The brave defense of Fort McHenry, during the Battle of Baltimore ... Explore the exhibits, billets and ramparts while counting the cannons to discover how the fort saved Baltimore – and ...
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Your people will either capitulate and either lay down the colors of that flag you think so much of, or, you see that fort over there, Fort McHenry ... flag way up on the rampart?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thru the perilous fight, O’er the ramparts we watched ... inspired by witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry in Chesapeake Bay by the British Royal ...