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Francis Scott Key wrote the "Star Spangled Banner" while witnessing

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he was witnessing the war he was in the middle of it
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... bombardment of Fort McHenry by British ships of the Royal Navy in Baltimore Harbor during the Battle of Baltimore in the War of 1812.
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