They didn’t know until they saw the flag that we’d won, so this is the genesis of the poem. O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

George Armistead to make a flag for Fort McHenry. This flag, which measured 30 feet by 42 feet, was the original Star-Spangled Banner that inspired the lines of Francis Scott Key’s renowned poem ...

The Star Spangled Banner is part of a poem about a battle ... bombs bursting in air” and still the American flag was visible over the “ramparts” of Fort McHenry, at great peril to those ...