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Our National Anthem
Francis Scott Key was a Baltimore lawyer who wrote the poem that
would become our national anthem. On September 13, 1814, in the
middle of the War of 1812, Key visited a British truce ship to
negotiate the release of an American doctor taken prisoner by
the British some time earlier. While on the ship, the British
began their attack on the on Fort McHenry as an attempt to capture
the city of Baltimore. Key witnessed from a safe distance a relentless
bombardment of the Fort through the rainy night. When morning
finally came, Key saw the large garrison flag flying proudly above
the fort. Overjoyed by the sight of the flag still flying and
knowing that the fort had not fallen to the determined British,
Francis Scott Key began to write about his eyewitness account
of the battle in a poem. In 1931 the Congress of The United States
of America enacted legislation that made "The Star-Spangled Banner"
the official national anthem. 
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