He wasn’t technically imprisoned, but he was not permitted to leave the ship. The British didn’t want him to disclose their location and plans to the Americans...
so the Britts actually gave us our National Anthem by giving Key the location to view the bombardment. He was on that ship to try and free a friend of his who had been taken prisoner. Key was a lawyer. There's a red, white and blue buoy in the river to mark the spot current historians believe he was watching from.
This monument is a few miles from my house. I pass it frequently when headed south out of town to DC or Annapolis. It was vandalized with paint when a lot of CSA monuments were getting a lot of negative attention.
Info say the British allowed Key to return to shore. Had he been imprisoned by them?
He wasn’t technically imprisoned, but he was not permitted to leave the ship. The British didn’t want him to disclose their location and plans to the Americans...
so the Britts actually gave us our National Anthem by giving Key the location to view the bombardment. He was on that ship to try and free a friend of his who had been taken prisoner. Key was a lawyer. There's a red, white and blue buoy in the river to mark the spot current historians believe he was watching from.
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This monument is a few miles from my house. I pass it frequently when headed south out of town to DC or Annapolis. It was vandalized with paint when a lot of CSA monuments were getting a lot of negative attention.
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