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The Star-Spangled Banner is a poem written in 1814 by Francis Scott Key and is the national anthem of the United States of America. Key, a 35-year-old lawyer and amateur poet, wrote it after witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry in Baltimore, Maryland by British ships in Chesapeake Bay during the War of 1812.
Samuel Francis Smith (1808â1895), Baptist minister, journalist and author, is best known for having written the lyrics to My Country, 'Tis of Thee, which he entitled America.