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Statues: The People They Salute
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Francis Scott Key was relieved to see the Stars and Stripes still flying over Fort McHenry on September 14, 1814. The British then allowed Key to return to shore. It was then that he wrote a poem describing his experience the night before. The poem was published in two Baltimore papers on September 20, 1814, and days later the owner of a Baltimore music store, Thomas Carr of the Carr Music Store, put the words and music together in print under the title “The Star-Spangled Banner.”
Pictured is a monument to Francis Scott Key, funded by Baltimore resident Charles Marburg. It was commissioned in 1907 and dedicated in 1911 at Eutaw Place, Baltimore.
Diana Erbio is a freelance writer and author of “Coming to America: A Girl Struggles to Find her Way in a New World”. Read more in her series Statues: The People They Salute, Table of Contents and visit the Facebook Page. Subscribe to her Substack Newsletter
Info say the British allowed Key to return to shore. Had he been imprisoned by them?
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