The flagship then anchored and brought Key and Skinner aboard. On September 7, around noon, they spotted Tonnant near the mouth of the Potomac. Rear Admiral Pulteney Malcolm assigned the frigate Hebrus to escort the American sloop to Tangier Island, where he thought Tonnant was. Beanes was aboard HMS Tonnant further down in the Bay. As recorded in the British ships' logs, on September 6, they had rendezvoused with HMS Royal Oak and the British troopships, near the mouth of the Patuxant. They sailed from Baltimore the next day (September 5) out through the Patapsco River and then south, down the Chesapeake Bay. The ship had a nine man crew and was captained by John Ferguson (co-owner of the ship). John Stuart Skinner (American agent for prisoners of war) who leased a 60-foot (18.3 m) sloop-rigged packet ship belonging to John and Benjamin Ferguson, brothers who owned a cargo and passenger service between Baltimore and Norfolk.
Under sanction from President Madison, on September 3, Key traveled 40 miles (64 km) by land from Washington to Baltimore, arriving there on the morning of September 4. – As soon as I get back I hope I shall be able to set out for Fred –. I hope to return in about 8 or 10 days, though is uncertain, as I do not know where to find the fleet. Old Dr Beanes of Marlbro' is taken prisoner by the Enemy, who threaten to carry him off – Some of his friends have urged me to apply for a flag & go & try to procure his release. I am going in the morning to Balt to proceed in a flag-vessel to Genl Ross. On September 2, 1814, from his home in Georgetown, F. Beanes was accused of aiding the arrest of some British soldiers (stragglers withdrawing after the Washington campaign) who were pillaging homes. It is now on display at the Maryland Historical Society.įollowing the Burning of Washington and the Raid on Alexandria, Dr William Beanes, the elderly and popular town physician of Upper Marlboro and a friend of Key, had been captured in his home on August 28, 1814. § 301(a).įrancis Scott Key's original manuscript copy of his "Defence of Fort M'Henry" poem. The resolution is now codified at 36 U.S.C. 1508) making the song the official national anthem of the United States, which President Herbert Hoover signed into law.
Congress passed a joint resolution (46 Stat. "The Star-Spangled Banner" was first recognized for official use by the U.S. Although the poem has four stanzas, only the first is commonly sung today. With a range of 19 semitones, it is known for being very difficult to sing. This setting, renamed "The Star-Spangled Banner", soon became a well-known U.S. " To Anacreon in Heaven" (or "The Anacreontic Song"), with various lyrics, was already popular in the United States. The poem was set to the tune of a popular British song written by John Stafford Smith for the Anacreontic Society, a men's social club in London. flag, with 15 stars and 15 stripes, known as the Star-Spangled Banner, flying triumphantly above the fort during the U.S. The lyrics come from the " Defence of Fort M'Henry", a poem written on September 14, 1814, by 35-year-old lawyer and amateur poet Francis Scott Key after witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry by British ships of the Royal Navy in Outer Baltimore Harbor in the Patapsco River during the Battle of Baltimore in the War of 1812. " The Star-Spangled Banner" is the national anthem of the United States.
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