Francis Scott Key awoke aboard a British warship after watching the terrifying 25-hour bombardment of Fort McHenry ... our flag was still there on this day in history, Sept. 14, 1814.

14, 1814, the huge garrison ... Designed to fly from a 90-foot pole, the flag measured 30 by 42 feet. Now it is 30 by 34 feet, reduced by wear and tear at Fort McHenry and by uncounted bits ...

It was, of course, the huge American flag that flew over Baltimore's Fort McHenry on a hot summer night in 1814. "Was," because this object at hand, the original Star-Spangled Banner, is no longer ...

Snapping, swishing, streaming, the huge star-spangled banner dances over Ft. McHenry. The mesmerizing flag gives the fort life. You’ll consider yourself fortunate if you happen to be here on a ...

"People who were stationed at Fort McHenry had a real sense of the history of the site." The night of September 14, 1814, while under ... intro video and other flag-related exhibits.

Host Liane Hansen travels to Fort McHenry in Baltimore with historian Anthony Pitch, author of "The Burning of Washington: The British Invasion of 1814." (Naval Institute Press; ISBN: 1557504253 ...

Flying 1814-style replica flags over city buildings ... The stirring story of the huge flag at Fort McHenry and Francis Scott Key’s poem is a familiar one to almost every American.

On this date in 1814 Francis Scott Key ... lawyer had just witnessed our flag make it through the night during a british attack of Baltimore's Fort McHenry. That original flag is now in the ...

It was also Flag Day, and that holds a special meaning for many. Meghan McCorkell was at Fort McHenry as crowds honored history. It was an emotional commemoration as Americans here in Baltimore ...