Let’s take a line-by-line tour of the history and meaning behind the lyrics ... Star-Spangled Banner" started as a poem, called “The Defence of Fort McHenry.” It was written by Francis Scott ...

Francis Scott Key wrote the lyrics of "The Star-Spangled Banner." In 1940, the chapel at Buckingham Palace was destroyed in ...

“The Star-Spangled Banner” was composed by Francis Scott Key, a Maryland attorney, slaveholder and poet, who was inspired by watching soldiers raise the flag over Baltimore’s 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, later to become America’s national anthem.

Re “Remove ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ as national anthem ... poem that is the basis for the Anthem is “racist”. Francis Scott Key was a slave owner, therefore we should not honor ...

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