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The Write Team Daily: "The Dawn's Early Light"
Today's episode of The Write Team Daily returns to September 14, 1814, and a stormy morning in Baltimore when Francis Scott Key looked through the smoke of battle and saw an American flag still flying over Fort McHenry.
For more than 25 hours, British warships had bombarded the fort during the War of 1812. Key, watching from aboard a vessel in Baltimore Harbor, could only wonder whether the fort—and perhaps the city itself—had survived. Then came the dawn. Through the smoke, he saw the Stars and Stripes still waving.
Inspired by the sight, Key began writing Defence of Fort M'Henry, opening…
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