USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -“The Defence of Fort M’Henry” by Francis Scott Key, which was later renamed “The Star-Spangled Banner, ” was published in the Baltimore Patriot and Evening Advertiser on Sept. 20, 1814, three days after Key wrote it.

Detailed explanation-2: -According to some accounts, Key showed the poem to relatives of his wife in Baltimore who had it printed immediately and distributed throughout the city on a handbill, entitled “The Defense of Fort McHenry.” Within a couple of weeks, Baltimore newspapers published the poem.

Detailed explanation-3: -After a local printer issued the song, originally called “Defence of Fort M’Henry, ” two Baltimore newspapers printed it, and it spread quickly to various cities along the East Coast. By November 1814, Key’s composition had appeared in print for the first time under the name “The Star-Spangled Banner.”

Detailed explanation-4: -On September 14, 1814, U.S. soldiers at Baltimore’s Fort McHenry raised a huge American flag to celebrate a crucial victory over British forces during the War of 1812. The sight of those “broad stripes and bright stars” inspired Francis Scott Key to write a song that eventually became the United States national anthem.

Detailed explanation-5: -Before it was named “The Star-Spangled Banner, ” it was called “The Defense of Fort McHenry.” Key eventually changed the name to better represent the flag and the United States. President Herbert Hoover signed the bill that made the song the national anthem in 1931.