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Stuart portrait of George Washington from the walls without its frame A thunderstorm at dawn kept the fires from spreading. The next day more. Having done their work. British troops returned to their ships in and around the Chesapeake Bay. In the days following the attack on Washington, the American forces prepared for the assault on. Baltimore population 4. Word soon reached Francis Scott Key. British had carried off an elderly and much loved town physician of Upper Marlboro. Dr. William Beanes, and was being. British flagship TONNANT. The townsfolk feared that Dr. Beanes would be hanged. They asked Francis Scott Key for his help, and he agreed, and arranged to have Col. John Skinner. an American agent for prisoner exchange to accompany him. On the morning of September 3rd, he and Col. Skinner set sail from Baltimore aboard a sloop. President Madison. On the 7th they found and boarded the. Software Para Plc Logo Siemens. TONNANT to confer with Gen. Ross and Adm. Alexander Cochrane. At first they refused to. Dr. Beanes. But Key and Skinner produced a pouch of letters written by wounded. British prisoners praising the care they were receiving from the Americans, among them. Dr. Beanes. The British officers relented but would not release the three Americans. Baltimore. They were placed under guard, first aboard the H. M. S. Surprise, then onto the sloop. British fleet. lets go back to the summer of 1. At the star shaped Fort Mc. Henry. the commander, Maj. George Armistead, asked for a flag so big that the British would have. Two officers, a Commodore and a General, were sent to. Baltimore home of Mary Young Pickersgill, a maker of colours, and commisioned the flag. Mary and her thirteen year old daughter Caroline, working in an upstairs front bedroom. They cut 1. 5 stars that measured two feet from. Eight red and seven white stripes, each two feet wide, were cut. Laying out. the material on the malthouse floor of Claggetts Brewery, a neighborhood establishment. By August it was finished. It measured 3. 0 by 4. The Baltimore Flag House, a museum, now occupies her premises, which were restored in 1. At 7 a. m. on the morning of September 1. British bombardment began, and the flag. The bombardment continued for 2. British firing 1,5. But they werent very dependable and often blew up in mid air. From special small boats the. British fired the new Congreve rockets that traced wobbly arcs of red flame across the sky. The Americans had sunk 2. British was not possible. That evening the connonading stopped, but at about 1 a. British fleet. roared to life, lighting the rainy night sky with grotesque fireworks. Key, Col. Skinner, and Dr. Beanes watched the battle with apprehension. They knew that as. Fort Mc. Henry had not surrendered. But, long before daylight. What the three Americans did not know was that. British land assault on Baltimore as well as the naval attack, had been abandoned. Judging Baltimore as being too costly a prize, the British officers ordered a retreat. Waiting in the predawn darkness, Key waited for the sight that would end his anxiety the. Gen. Armisteads great flag blowing in the breeze. When at last daylight. Being an amatuer poet and having been so uniquely inspired, Key began to write on the back of a. Sailing back to Baltimore he composed more lines and in his. Indian Queen Hotel he finished the poem. Judge J. H. Nicholson, his. Baltimore under the title Defence of Fort MHenry. Two of these copies survive. It was printed in a newspaper for the first time in the Baltimore Patriot on September 2. Georgia and New Hampshire. To the verses was added a note Tune. Frutiger Lt Font. Anacreon in Heaven. In October a Baltimore actor sang Keys new song in a public. The Star Spangled Banner. Immediately popular, it remained just one of several patriotic airs until it was finally. March 3, 1. 93. 1. But the actual words were not included in. Key himself had written several versions with slight variations so. The flag, our beloved Star Spangled Banner, went on view ,for the first time after flying. Fort Mc. Henry, on January 1st,1. Old State House in Philadelphia for the. Centennial celebration. It now resides in the Smithsonian Institutions Museum. American History. An opaque curtain shields the now fragile flag from light and dust. The flag is exposed for viewing for a few moments once every hour during museum hours. Francis Scott Key was a witness to the last enemy fire to fall on Fort Mc. Henry. The Fort. was designed by a Frenchman named Jean Foncin and was named for then Secretary of war James. Mc. Henry. Fort Mc. Henry holds the unique designation of national monument and historic shrine. Since May 3. 0th, 1. Joint Resolution of Congress, over. Francis Scott Keys birthplace, Terra Rubra Farm, Carroll. County, Keymar, Maryland. The copy that Key wrote in his hotel September 1. Nicholson family for 9. In 1. 90. 7 it was sold to Henry Walters of Baltimore. In 1. 93. 4 it was bought at auction. New York from the Walters estate by the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore for 2. The Walters Gallery in 1. Maryland Historical Society for the. Another copy that Key made is in the Library of Congress. Related Site The Patriots of Fort Mc. Henry Home Page. Table of Contents. Historic Flags. Patriotic Writings. Miscellaneous. Etcetera. Links to Web Sites of Special Interest. Comments Welcomed.