The Star-Spangled Banner” is played at sports games, school events, and military ceremonies, but do you know the meaning of our national anthem? The song’s centuries-old history makes it worth ...

Max Impact, stationed at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling in Washington, D.C., is one of six musical ensembles that form The U.S.

It’s a song every American has heard countless times, but how much do you really know about our national anthem?

Upon arrival at Fort McHenry, the riders explored the historical site, including the replica of the flag flown during the Battle of Baltimore in 1814 and various wartime tactics. After two hours ...

14, 1814. The Baltimore attorney ... Key was certain that American defenses at Fort McHenry, just 40 miles from the nation’s capital, would collapse under the attack's intensity.

Sept. 13 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1814, during a British attack on Fort McHenry, Md., Francis Scott Key wrote the lyrics of "The Star-Spangled Banner." In 1940, the chapel at Buckingham ...

Francis Scott Key's view of the American flag flying in triumphant defiance over Fort McHenry on the morning of Sept. 13, 1814, was not captured by photo or painting as he saw it. But the scene ...

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 ...

Fort McHenry was built in 1802 ... The Battle of Baltimore comes around in the summer of 1814, and Baltimore at that point in time is the third-largest city in the United States, it was one ...

In September 1814, two years after the War of 1812 had ... prisoner's release and witnessed a 25-hour British bombardment of Fort McHenry.From his vantage point on the Patapsco River, the 35 ...