10 Things You Didn’t Know About the American National Anthem
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10 Things You Didn’t Know About the American National Anthem

On September 14, 1814, as the Battle of Baltimore was taking place, a Maryland-based lawyer named Francis Scott Key penned those famous first lines of a lyric that would later become known around the world: “O say can you see, by the dawn’s early light, what so proudly we hail’d at the twilight’s last gleaming…” […] The post 10 Things You Didn’t Know About the American National Anthem appeared first on Listverse.