Francis Scott Key wrote the star spangled banner while the big war was going on because he didn't know if he was going to live or not and America won our freedom now everyone knows the star spangled banner which used to be a poem called "the defense of ft. Mc Henry.
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Fort McHenry, just outside of Baltimore, Maryland.
Because of the Bombarding of Fort McHenry.
Because its conquest gave to Union the control of the Tennessee River.
The defense of Fort McHenry, near Baltimore, Maryland, USA, took place then, mostly during the night between those two dates. On the 14th, a lawyer who witnessed the bombardment, Francis Scott Key, wrote a poem about it, called "The Defense of Fort McHenry". The name of the poem was later changed to "The Star-Spangled Banner," and it was set to music. The song was adopted as the United States national anthem in 1931.
The national flag that inspired the writing of the U.S. national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner," was completed in about six weeks. It was made by flagmaker Mary Pickersgill and her team of seamstresses in 1813 for Fort McHenry in Baltimore, Maryland.