the original Star-Spangled Banner, is no longer "still there." The effects of age brought it down — something the British failed to do 186 years ago. That giant flag, one of the Smithsonian's ...

Leepson: This is about the flag and its movement ... people and those who flew to the side of the British. And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave O’er the land of the free and ...

Then British war vessels appeared in the Chesapeake ... now a National Historic Landmark known as the Star-Spangled Banner Flag House. "Ships were coming and going from around the world.

George Armistead to make a flag for Fort McHenry ... 13, 1814, two years since the onset of the War of 1812, a fleet of British Royal Navy vessels lingered in Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay.

“The Star Spangled Banner” has long been derided as a poor ... Uncertainty in the defeat of Britain was perhaps one of the unadmitted feelings Americans harbored during the War of 1812.