On the morning of 13 September 1814, during the War of 1812, the British attacked Fort McHenry in Baltimore Harbor with a bombing that lasted 25 hours. “By the Dawn’s Early Light“ the next morning, the sight of Fort McHenry’s flag and the British withdrawing from Baltimore, inspired Francis Scott Key to write the Star Spangled Banner. - Read more about the Star-Spangled Banner on the National Park Service website: http://www.nps.gov/fomc/historycultu...led-banner.htm --
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