The melody of the “Star-Spangled Banner” comes from the “Anacreontic Song”, a popular British song composed by John Stafford Smith in 1775 that was popular in the United States. President Woodrow Wilson in 1916, and was made the national anthem by a congressional resolution on March 3, 1931. ” The Star-Spangled Banner” was recognized for official use by the United States Navy in 1889, and by U.S. The lyrics come from “Defence of Fort McHenry“, a poem written in 1814 by the lawyer and amateur poet Francis Scott Key after witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry by British ships of the Royal Navy in Baltimore Harbor during the Battle of Baltimore in the War of 1812. The “Star-Spangled Banner” is the national anthem of the United States of America.
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