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Francis Scott Key was a laywer who went to the British to free his friend. He obsevered the Battle of Baltimore from the deck of a British ship. He could tell what was going on in the war because he could continually see the American flag in Fort McHenry. He wrote a poem on what he saw and that poem combined with an old English song to make the Star Spangled Banner.

Sources: http://www.kyrene.org/schools/brisas/sunda/flag/1812/page1.htm

Visit: http://americanhistory.si.edu/starspangledbanner/