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He wrote the national anthem on a British warship. Here's the full story. 🇺🇸

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During the War of 1812, lawyer Francis Scott Key witnessed the American flag still flying over Fort McHenry after a 25-hour British bombardment, inspiring him to write a poem on the back of a letter that would become the national anthem 'The Star-Spangled Banner' 117 years later; the flag he saw was hand-sewn by Baltimore widow Mary Pickersgill, her daughter, nieces, and indentured Black teenager Grace Wisher on the floor of a brewery.

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