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The Star-Spangled Banner
The Star-Spangled Banner
The Star-Spangled Banner was written during the War of 1812.
Francis Scott Key penned the poem to the tune of a well-known British song on September 14, 1814, thirty years after the close of the American Revolutionary War.
