Schenning said the lyrics, which historians say were written in downtown Baltimore’s Indian Queen Tavern, were later printed in the form of a handbill, titled “Defence of Fort M’Henry,” and distributed throughout Baltimore. Indeed, “On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep, where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes,” Key saw the flag as it caught “the gleam of the morning’s first beam, in full glory reflected,” shining in the stream.
The second verse is actually when he tells you what happened.” “The first verse, he’s asking a couple questions. “My favorite verse is the second verse,” said Kristin Schenning, education director for the Maryland Historical Society. It inspired Key to write the “The Star-Spangled Banner” as Baltimore’s residents were looking for a sign they were still free.
14, Fort McHenry’s flag, with 15 stars and 15 stripes to represent the Union at the time, still flew. According to the Maryland Historical Society, the keeper of Key’s final draft, the city, drenched with rain, was dark except for the rockets and bombs exploding overhead. 13 as bombs from British vessels fired through the night on Fort McHenry in Baltimore, which, with 50,000 residents, was the nation’s third-largest city at the time.
Key was a 35-year-old lawyer and amateur poet in 1814, tasked with obtaining the release of William Beanes, a physician from Upper Marlboro, Md., who was taken by the British after they withdrew from Washington, D.C.įrom a truce ship in the Chesapeake Bay, Key watched on Sept.
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