[Fiji Hill]

This has been floating around the Internet for years. It’s wildly inaccurate. For one thing, the narrator refers to this country as “the colonies”—at the time, we had been the USA for 38 years, and our Constitution had been in effect for two and a half decades. He also refers to the fort in question as “Fort Henry.” That’s as far as I listened.

[MuttTheHoople]

Basically, the Star Spangled Banner was smacktalk against Britain....the 19th Century version of "WE PIMPSLAPPED YO A$$!"

I love the fact that OUR National Anthem is based on a forgotten battle in a forgotten war, andthat it ends with a question.

[Stepan12]

There are four stanzas to the Star Spangled Bannber -- not one. I suspect that I am one of the few peop>le on you tube that sings all four stanzas of the Star Spangled Banner. My neighbors at the campfire did not know there were more than one stanzas and they applauded prematurely.