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.
I was about to jump out of my skin listening to those historical and factual errors. Thank you for pointing some of them out. Yes, this was the War of 1812, long after the Revolutionary War.
What drove me to finally bail on him and close the video before it ended was when he skipped the entire second sentence of the Anthem’s lyrics: “Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight, o’er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming.”
Thanks again.
Cool....never checked. I will now...