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The songs popularity increased, and its first public performance took place in October, when Baltimore actor Ferdinand Durang sang it at Captain McCauleys tavern.

The lyrics come from Defence of Fort McHenry, a poem written in 1814 by the 35-year-old amateur poet Francis Scott Key after witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry by the British Royal Navy ships in Chesapeake Bay during the Battle of Fort McHenry in the War of 1812.

The Anacreontic Song (or To Anacreon in Heaven), with various lyrics, was already popular in the United States.

Set to Keys poem and renamed The Star-Spangled Banner, it would soon become a well-known American patriotic song.

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Although the song has four stanzas, only the first is commonly sung today, with the fourth (O thus be it ever when free men shall stand) added on more formal occasions.

In the fourth stanza, Key urged the adoption of In God is our Trust as the national motto (And this be our motto: In God is our Trust).

The United States adopted the motto In God We Trust by law in 1956.

Hail, Columbia served this purpose at official functions for most of the 19th century.

Following the War of 1812 and subsequent American wars, other songs would emerge to compete for popularity at public events, among them The Star-Spangled Banner.

John Stafford Smith memorial in Gloucester Cathedral, England.

Their objective was to secure the exchange of prisoners, one of which was Dr.

William Beanes, the elderly and popular town physician of Upper Marlboro, and a friend of Keys who had been captured in his home.

Key and Skinner boarded the British flagship HMS Tonnant on September 7 and spoke with Major General Robert Ross and then-Vice Admiral Alexander Cochrane over dinner, while they discussed war plans.

At first, Ross and Cochrane refused to release Beanes, but relented after Key and Skinner showed them letters written by wounded British prisoners praising Beanes and other Americans for their kind treatment.

After the bombardment, certain British gunboats attempted to slip past the fort and effect a landing in a cove to the west of it, but they were turned away by fire from nearby Fort Covington, the citys last line of defense.

By then, the storm flag had been lowered, and the larger flag had been raised.

This flag, with fifteen stars and fifteen stripes, came to be known as the Star Spangled Banner Flag and is today on display in the National Museum of American History, a treasure of the Smithsonian Institution.

It was restored in 1914 by Amelia Fowler, and again in 1998 as part of an ongoing conservation program.

At twilight on 16 September, he and Skinner were released in Baltimore.

He completed the poem at the Indian Queen Hotel, where he was staying, and he entitled it Defence of Fort McHenry.

The song, known as When the Warrior Returns, is said to have been written in honor of Stephen Decatur and Charles Stewart on their return from the First Barbary War.

Nicholson took the poem to a printer in Baltimore, who anonymously printed broadside copies of it the songs first known printing on September 17; of these, two known copies survive.

Francis Scott Keys original manuscript copy of his Star-Spangled Banner poem.

The song quickly became popular, with seventeen newspapers from Georgia to New Hampshire printing it.

Soon after, Thomas Carr of the Carr Music Store in Baltimore published the words and music together under the title The Star-Spangled Banner, although it was originally called Defence of Fort McHenry.

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