2/12/2024 0 Comments Why was francis scott key forced to stay on a british warship during the battle of fort mchenry![]() Recently, the war had taken a turn for the worse when on August 24, British forces led by General Ross had captured and burned much of Washington, DC, including the White House (at the time called the Presidential Mansion) and the Capital building, causing President Madison to briefly flee the city. The war, being fought over the impressment of sailors on American ships (the British navy took sailors who were British subjects off American ships and forced them to work on British ships) and freedom of the seas, had been raging for two years. It was written as a poem entitled “The Defence of Fort M’Henry” by Francis Scott Key on September 14, 1814, the day after a terrible bombardment of Fort McHenry in Baltimore Harbor by British forces in the War of 1812. ![]() The Star Spangled Banner, our national anthem, is a beautiful song. O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave? O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there, O’er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?Īnd the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight What so proudly we hail’d at the twilight’s last gleaming, O say can you see, by the dawn’s early light,
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