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Wikipedia: "The Star-Spangled Banner" is the national anthem of the United States of America. The lyrics come from "Defence of Fort McHenry", a poem written in 1814 by the 35-year-old amateur poet Francis Scott Key after witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry by the British Royal Navy ships in Chesapeake Bay during the Battle of Fort Mchenry in the War of 1812. The poem was set to the tune of a popular British drinking song, written by John Stafford Smith for the Anacreontic Society, a men's social club in London.
![[Commemorative plaque in Washington, D]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Star_Spangled_Banner_plaque_s.jpg "Commemorative plaque in Washington, D")
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![[Cover of sheet music for "The Star]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/The_Star_Spangled_Banner_Project_Gutenberg_eText_21566_s.jpg "Cover of sheet music for \"The Star")
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![[Crowd performing the US national anthem before a baseball game in Coors Field.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Usnationalanthemcrowd_s.jpg "Crowd performing the US national anthem before a baseball game in Coors Field.")
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![[O'er the ramparts we watch in a 1945 United States Army Air Forces poster]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Oer_the_ramparts_we_watch_s.jpg "O'er the ramparts we watch in a 1945 United States Army Air Forces poster")
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![[The 15-star, 15-stripe "Star Spangled Banner Flag" which inspired the poem.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Star_Spangled_Banner_1908_1919_s.jpg "The 15-star, 15-stripe \"Star Spangled Banner Flag\" which inspired the poem.")
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![[Francis Scott Key's original manuscript copy of his "Star]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/KeysSSB_s.jpg "Francis Scott Key's original manuscript copy of his \"Star")
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![[One of two surviving copies of the 1814 broadside printing of the "Defence of Fort McHenry", a poem that later...]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Defence_of_Fort_M_27Henry_broadside_s.jpg "One of two surviving copies of the 1814 broadside printing of the \"Defence of Fort McHenry\", a poem that later...")
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