Indians React to Star Spangled Banner As You've Never Heard It

[@peppermoon7485]

Every nation is an experiment and every nation is fragile ❤Ty for reacting to this from Missouri 🇺🇸

[@kennethlucas7163]

During the Battle of Baltimore in 1814, a British fleet of around 19 ships bombarded Fort McHenry with rockets and mortar shells for 27 hours. The fleet included frigates, bomb ships, and a rocket ship. The British ships were unable to reach the fort due to the chain and the fort's artillery. The fort's defenders, led by Maj. George Armistead, were able to withstand the bombardment and the British were forced to withdraw. The American flag was raised over the fort on the morning of September 14, 1814. The ammunition used by the British ships inspired Francis Scott Key to write his famous lines, including "and the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air".

[@kirktennyson612]

This like the speaker says is a Story based on Fact like a good movie, it is embellished to make the story, since there is no way to know what was ever said during the attack. There are many mistakes such as Fort McHenry not Fort Henry, going a board instead of ashore, hailed instead of held and Fight instead of flight to name a few that I can think of right now. the bombardment went fore between 23 to 25 hours depending on the source. Doing minor damage ( I guess the British only wanted to break their windows or they were just very bad at their jobs) to the fort. They had between 16 and 20 top of the line Ships 6 of them being bombardment ships and some support ships like troop carriers with them. It is reported that there were 1000 troops in the fort and unknown number of civilians listed and only one woman and 3 men died after all that shelling. ( I guess they were accidents since the British was not really trying to take out the fort???) What Key wrote was a poem about what he saw that night. The first verse was taken later and put to music and later picked between 2 songs from a U.S. navel vessel to be played at the 1896 Olympics by a Italian assistant director to be played for the medal ceremony's ( At that time we did not have an Anthem and the Director was looking for something to play) before it was ever selected by school kids in the U.S. back in the 1930's to become official. just some interesting facts that I read and observed.There are 2 things most have realized since that time though is 1 you don't disrespect our flag and 2 never, never mess with our boats. As bad things seem to happen to them soon after.

[@xJamesLaughx]

I honestly wish people would stop recommending this video to reactors/reactors stop picking this video and would instead pick one of the MANY others out there with the proper story of the Star Spangled Banner. This is nothing more than a preacher talking to his congregation, you can even hear their replies in the video, with a highly exaggerated and in many cases just outright wrong information. As an amatuer historian myself this is a breakdown to correct some of the MANY inaccuracies and exaggerations in this video.... 1. This was not a war with the "mother country". This took place during the War of 1812, we were already a nation so we were NOT colonies of the "motherland" England. Also it was Fort McHenry NOT Fort Henry. And the fort WAS a military fort built with other forts in the area to protect Baltimore and the harbor. There were few if ANY women or children in that fort. 2. Francis Scott Key was not there to negotiate the release of prisoners. He was there to get the releae of a SINGLE prisoner, Dr. William Beanes, who was an associate of his. 3. Key was NOT onboard ANY British ships during the bombardment. He had went back to the ship that he had came out on and watched from that. 4. It was NOT the entire British War Fleet. Britian could ill afford to send her main Naval power to the US as she was also in a major conflict with Napoleon of France at the time so her navy was kind of tied up with dealing with France. So what was used was around 18 or so vessels, mostly smaller ships like mortar ships and bomb ketches etc. 5. The flag at Ft McHenry never fell nor was it held up by bodies of "patriots". The British aim was terrible as they had moved their ships out to maximum gun range to try and keep return fire from the fort to a minimum. Only 4 Americans were killed and 24 wounded at Ft. McHenry. 6. There were actually two flags that flew over the fort during this. The first during the night was a smaller 17ftx25ft storm flag due to a rainstorm occuring at the same time of the battle. At dawn as the British began to retreat the flag was ordered to be lowered and the much larger 30ftx42ft Garrison Flag was raised over the fort. Both of these flags were made by Mary Pickersgill. It was the larger 30ftx42ft Garrision flag that became famous as the Star Spangled Banner even though it was the smaller one that flew during the actual battle. So the flag Key saw in the morning would not have been damaged or torn from battle at all.