The Star Spangled Banner

by D. Fisher

Frances Scott Key

(1779-1843)

Lawyer

Key’s House

Wife Mary 11 Children

Mary Young Pickersgill made a big flag for Fort McHenry.

42 feet long

30 feet wid

e

British Burned Washington, D.C.

President Madison had to flee.

Fort McHenry

American Soldier

Key was on a British Ship

Looked for his friend, Dr. Beanes. Dr. Beanes helped wounded soldiers. Key & Beanes could not go home. Watched the battle all night.

Key & Beames

Watching

The flag was still there.

Key wrote a poem.

1931

Presedent Hover

signs the law making the

“Star Spangled Banner”

the National Anthem

The original flag hangs in the Smithsonian Institute

The Star Spangled Banner

Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early lightWhat so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight,O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet waveO'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?