baltimore, battle of, 1814

Recounts how Mrs. Pickergill of Baltimore was commissioned to make the huge flag which flew at Fort McHenry over Baltimore Harbor during a battle with the British in 1814.

Describes the history of the patriotic poem written by Francis Scott Key in 1814 and named the national anthem of the United States in 1931 by president Herbert Hoover.

A simple description of how, during the War of 1812, Francis Scott Key came to write the poem that became the national anthem.