{"id":1383,"date":"2015-07-13T15:22:34","date_gmt":"2015-07-13T15:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/?p=1383"},"modified":"2017-01-19T17:20:06","modified_gmt":"2017-01-19T17:20:06","slug":"star-spangled-banner-flag-15-stars-and-15-stripes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/star-spangled-banner-flag-15-stars-and-15-stripes\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Spangled Banner Flag 15 Stars and 15 Stripes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As the\u00a0War of 1812\u00a0waged on, the citizens of Baltimore began to prepare for a possible British attack.\u00a0\u00a0It seemed inevitable; the British considered Baltimore a \u201cnest of pirates\u201d due to the privateer clippers that were built in the city\u2019s shipyards.<\/p>\n

During the summer of 1813, Fort McHenry\u2019s commanding officer Major\u00a0George Armistead\u00a0wanted a flag that was\u00a0“so large that the British will have no difficulty in seeing it from a distance.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

There were 15 stars and stripes<\/a> on the two flags (to represent the 13 original colonies and Vermont and Kentucky,\u00a0\u00a0the next two states to enter the union).\u00a0\u00a0The flags were delivered to Fort McHenry on August 19, 1813.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Star-Spangled Banner<\/a>\u00a0assumed a meaning beyond local celebration. This flag represents the broad ideals and values of the nation. Today, the American flag continues to evoke a special, patriotic feeling. In times of war, when returning from overseas, during space exploration, and at sporting events or other public gatherings, the American flag continues to represent freedom, democracy, and the intangible nature of “what it means to be an American.”<\/p>\n

By the dawn\u2019s early light on September 14, 1814, Francis Scott Key peered through a spyglass and spotted an American flag still waving over Baltimore\u2019s Fort McHenry after a fierce night of British bombardment. In a patriotic fervor, the man called \u201cFrank\u201d Key by family and friends penned the words to \u201cThe Star-Spangled Banner.\u201d<\/p>\n

When Key scrawled his lyrics on the back of a letter he pulled from his pocket on the morning of September 14, he did not give them any title. Within a week, Key\u2019s verses were printed on broadsides and in Baltimore newspapers under the title \u201cDefense of Fort M\u2019Henry.\u201d In November, a Baltimore music store printed the patriotic song with sheet music for the first time under the more lyrical title \u201cThe Star-Spangled Banner.\u201d<\/p>\n

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As the\u00a0War of 1812\u00a0waged on, the citizens of Baltimore began to prepare for a possible British attack.\u00a0\u00a0It seemed inevitable; the British considered Baltimore a \u201cnest of pirates\u201d due to the privateer clippers that were built in the city\u2019s shipyards. During the summer of 1813, Fort McHenry\u2019s commanding officer Major\u00a0George Armistead\u00a0wanted a flag that was\u00a0“so large […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[45,1],"tags":[674,467,480,47,545,22,675,673],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wIlQ-mj","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1383"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1386,"href":"https:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383\/revisions\/1386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}