The Incidental Cause of the Star-Spangled Banner (1814)

Following the Battle of Bladensburg and the sacking and burning of Washington, D.C., during the war of 1812, British troops reentered the town of Upper Marlboro on August 26, 1814. It was at this point that some stragglers were arrested ...

National Historic Landmark - The Flag House and Star-Spangled Banner Museum

The Flag House was the home of Mary Pickersgill and the site where she sewed the Star-Spangled Banner.

Mary Pickersgill moved into the Flag House in 1807 with her mother, Rebecca Young, and her daughter Caroline, and set up a ...

Star-Spangled Banner

By order of the President, the flag of the United States of America flies day and night here at the place where Francis Scott Key saw it when he wrote “The Star-Spangled Banner.”

Without words, the unfurled flag answers Key’s ...

The Star-Spangled Banner

The Flag. The immortal words "star-spangled Banner" refer to the magnificent flag which Francis Scott Key saw "by the dawn's early light" after the British bombardment of Fort McHenry on September 14, 1814. It is the largest flag ever flown ...