Fort McHenry

After watching the American victory at the Battle of Fort McHenry, Francis Scott Key wrote the “Star-Spangled Banner.”

After Fort McHenry, Palin headed toward Gettysburg, Pa., where she is expected to tour the Civil War battlefields Tuesday.

They had bombarded Fort McHenry for twenty-five hours, throwing nearly two thousand shells.

The flag of Fort McHenry, which inspired the song, still exists in a fair state of preservation.

The day was calm and still, with no wind to lift the flag that drooped around its staff over Fort McHenry.

Were the guns of Fort McHenry to be turned upon the inhabitants?

That was on the second day after the bombardment of Fort McHenry.