Star-Spangled Flag (1806)

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In a message dated 7/2/2007 7:47:22 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
bgzimmer at BABEL.LING.UPENN.EDU writes:

This was  also written by Francis Scott  Key.

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http://www.potw.org/archive/potw340.html
Key is best  known for writing the The Star-Spangled Banner
in September of 1814. The  above poem was written to the same
tune (Anacreon in Heaven) in honor of  Stephen Decatur, Jr.
and Charles Stewart on their return from the war with  the
Barbary pirates.
It was published in the Boston Independent  Chronicle on
December 30, 1805. The version above is from:
# Key,  Francis S., Poems of the Late Francis S. Key, Esq..
New York: Robert Carter  & Brothers, 1857.


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Thanks.
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I do have a minor question of how the September 6, 1814 THE WAR (America's
Historical Newspapers) could have the poem for a battle that hadn't taken place
 yet (September 13-14, 1814).



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