American Pageant Chapter 9/13

On September 13, 1814 that was warships that was filled with british people that started a war, called the bombardment which was also known for the battle of Baltimore. Which came a little weeks afer the british had attacked Washington, D.C., they left the capitol burning, the treasury and the presidents house. In the mist of all that caos, a week erlier Francis Scott Key a thirty five year old American lawyer(A.K.A. the person who wrote the star Spangled Banner) had borded the flagship of the british fleet on the Chesapeake Bay. He was trying to convince or persuade the British to release a friend that was recently arrested. Francis had so great plans and Ideas but because he and his companions had gotten so much knowledge of the impending attack on Baltimore the british did not let them go.

But when darkness arrived, Key saw only red erupting in the night sky. While he was looking at all that he thought that given the scale of the attack he was sure that the british would win. But some hours passed by and in the clearing of the smoke “the dawn’s early light” on September 14, he saw the American Flag- not the british Union Jack – Flying over the fort, Announcing and American Victory Key put his thoughts on a sheet of paper while still on board, and trying to set up the words to the tune of the song. So Basiclly the reason on why Francis Scott Key wrote the song was to share How devastating the battle was and well he named it Star Spangled Banner because the flag has fifty stars that represent the fifty states and the thirteen stripes represented the thirteen colonies of the United