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Quick Facts about the Star-Spangled Banner Flag

Made in Baltimore, Maryland, in July-August 1813 by flagmaker Mary Pickersgill

Commissioned by Major George Armistead, commander of Fort McHenry

Original size: 30 feet by 42 feet

Current size: 30 feet by 34 feet

Fifteen stars and fifteen stripes (one star has been cut out)

Raised over Fort McHenry on the morning of September 14, 1814, to signal American victory over the British in the Battle of Baltimore; the sight inspired Francis Scott Key to write “The Star-Spangled Banner”

Preserved by the Armistead family as a memento of the battle

First loaned to the Smithsonian Institution in 1907; converted to permanent gift in 1912

On exhibit at the National Museum of American History since 1964

2007-01-12 04:53:13 · 1 answers · asked by hamk0 3 in Arts & Humanities History

1 answers

Be the selection of 15 stars only visible of 14, there was a
legend that the earliest families of that period of Indiana were
caught in suspicions that the civil war would make them a
haven of traffic, and later headquarters in a most unpopular
duty. Fighting brother versus brother was not allowable claimed the congressman of Indiana, and Louisiana both aware of this latest war being nearly of civil intentions. There was much
interest in having blessings, and sacred events in their favor.
This story was popular that later Lincoln would live in Indiana
and work there as the camp david of the day.

2007-01-12 06:02:23 · answer #1 · answered by mtvtoni 6 · 1 0

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