Francis Scott Key awoke aboard a British warship after watching the terrifying 25-hour bombardment of Fort McHenry — and, by dawn's early light, was stunned to find that our flag was still there ...

The birthplace of The Star-Spangled Banner is rich with American history that goes beyond the War of 1812. Fort McHenry was instrumental in securing Baltimore for the Union in the early days of ...

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 ...

History | Updated: July 1, 2024 | Originally Published: March 1, 2007 How the flag that flew proudly over Fort McHenry in September 1814 made its way to the Smithsonian Cate Lineberry; Updated by ...

They danced all around the hospital at Fort McHenry when the armistice ending ... “There would be no waving of flags for us,” Williams wrote in a memoir. “No sense of danger faced in common ...

Fort McHenry National ... of 1812 by the Fort McHenry Guard.Following the tattoo ceremony, visitors will be invited to fold the great 30 x 42-foot Star-Spangled Banner flag and hear the firing ...

The American flag that flew over Fort McHenry in Baltimore, Maryland, during the War of 1812 and inspired Francis Scott Key to write “The Star-Spangled Banner” is just one of the precious ...

7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 16: - Morning Dress Parade & Flag Change (Inside Star Fort): 10 a.m. - Fort McHenry Guard Fife and Drum Performance: 12 p.m. - War of 1812 Cannon & Musket Demonstrations ...

In the murky waters of Baltimore's harbor, between the Chesapeake Bay and a decommissioned fort, a red, white and blue buoy marks the spot where Francis Scott Key observed the British bombarding ...