USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Flag. The War of 1812 elevated the American flag to icon status. Before the war, Americans rarely used the flag to express patriotism. But the flag’s appearance over Fort McHenry during the Battle for Baltimore and Francis Scott Key’s poem “The Star-Spangled Banner” inspired the public.

Detailed explanation-2: -But the Star-Spangled Banner is more than an artifact-it’s also a national symbol. It evokes powerful emotions and ideas about what it means to be an American.” The Star-Spangled Banner’s history starts not with Francis Scott Key, but a year earlier with Maj. George Armistead, the commander of Fort McHenry.

Detailed explanation-3: -By giving the flag a starring role in one of the most celebrated victories of the war, Francis Scott Key’s song established a new prominence for the flag as an expression of national identity, unity, and pride."

Detailed explanation-4: -The U.S. national anthem and the flag that inspired it are legacies of the War of 1812. British forces gathered to attack Baltimore in September 1814. After a 25-hour bombardment of Fort McHenry, they failed to penetrate Baltimore’s defenses and withdrew.

Detailed explanation-5: -Though Key wrote the words during the British bombardment of Fort McHenry at Baltimore, the melody was an English tune well known in America by the 1790s. It was the music for a poem, “To Anacreon in Heaven, ” written about 1780 as the official song of a British social and musical organization, the Anacreontic Society.