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 and pieces snipped off as mementos.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A giant American flag above Baltimore's Fort McHenry on Sept. 14, 1814, signaling the city's rebuff of the mighty British navy during the War of 1812. In the run-up to the bicentennial celebration ...

On September 14th, 1814, the 1,000 men continued to defend Fort McHenry. The American soldiers raised the American flag to signal they had not and would not surrender to the Royal Navy.

THE FIRST EVER PRESIDENTIAL PROCLAMATION TO FLY THE FLAG, 2407 365 IS RIGHT HERE AT FORT MCHENRY BY PRESIDENT TRUMAN. THAT’S WHY THEY FLY IT ALL THE TIME, FIRST EVER. AND TO THIS DAY ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...