Bicentennial: National Anthem Inspired by British Rockets

Two-hundred years ago today, on 1814 September 14, a British rocket 
bombardment, allowing sight of the American Flag flying above 
Baltimore's Fort McHenry, inspired Francis Scott Key to write a poem 
which would become the lyrics to the song, The Star Spangled Banner, which became the American National Anthem in 1931. While space exploration and commercial use are the primary purposes of 
rockets today, the rocket became a regular tool of war for the British 
Empire in the early nineteenth century.

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American Flag, with 15 stars and 15 stripes, flown over Fort McHenry in Baltimore during the British rocket bombardment in the War of 1812,   
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