The flag has been at Smithsonian for more than a century after being given to the institution by the family of Maj. George Armistead. Armistead was the commander of Fort McHenry and the man who ...

The Star-Spangled Banner arrived at the Smithsonian Institution in 1907 ... the commander of Fort McHenry. Knowing that his fort was a likely British target, Armistead, in the summer of 1813 ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Smithsonian Institution ... of Baltimore's Fort McHenry. In September 1814, lawyer Francis Scott Key penned the lyrics of "The Star-Spangled Banner" as he saw the flag.

Several times during the night he wondered if the city’s last defense, Fort McHenry ... why for nearly a century now the Smithsonian has cared for the flag, preserved it and made it available ...

The flag has been at Smithsonian for more than a century after being given to the institution by the family of Maj. George Armistead. Armistead was the commander of Fort McHenry and the man who ...

white or blue and marked Fort McHenry — the Smithsonian Institution would like to know. Two hundred years after a massive flag was hoisted over the fort in Baltimore that withstood a British ...

The Smithsonian's ... Friday to celebrate the flag 200 years after the Battle of Baltimore held back a British attack. The flag that flew over Baltimore's Fort McHenry inspired Francis Scott ...

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 Fort McHenry flag —and every American flag — resonates as a symbol of freedom, opportunity, equality around the world and of the individual rights that form the linchpin of our democracy. Lonnie G ...

Bunch III is the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution ... The American flag that flew over Fort McHenry in Baltimore, Maryland, during the War of 1812 and inspired Francis Scott Key to ...

Bunch III - Smithsonian Institution Never has public access ... from the aforementioned flag that flew over Fort McHenry, to the portable desk Thomas Jefferson used to pen the Declaration of ...