The American flag has appeared on countless United States postage stamps, was placed on the moon in 1969 by Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong and has been a symbol of ...

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 ...

The War of 1812, which lasted until 1815 ... D.C., but it also earned notable victories, such as the defense of Fort McHenry and the Battle of New Orleans, which boosted national pride. Some 2,260 ...

Maj. George Armistead, commander of Fort McHenry, had requested that a giant flag be made to fly over the fort a year earlier, with the War of 1812 well underway and certain at some point he would ...

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 ...

It was another chapter in the ongoing War of 1812. A week earlier ... s defenses that he needed a flag—a big one: “We, sir, are ready at Fort McHenry to defend Baltimore against invading ...

So, the flag they would have flown during the War of 1812, the thing that makes Fort McHenry famous, makes us a national monument and historic shrine. ♪ ("Yankee Doodle" playing). SHANNON ...

In September 1814, two years after the War of 1812 had started between the United ... and witnessed a 25-hour British bombardment of Fort McHenry.From his vantage point on the Patapsco River ...