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Mtn Ridge boys win shootout tourney; Southern victorious; Allegany splits at Brunswick
Sep. 9—FROSTBURG — Mountain Ridge defended its shootout tournament Saturday, defeating Fort Hill, 5-0, and Francis Scott Key, 4-0. The Miner...
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Mtn. Ridge girls roll in shootout tourney; Southern splits in Accident; Allegany ties, loses
Sep. 9—FROSTBURG — Mountain Ridge rolled to a pair of routs to open its season Saturday, defeating Francis Scott Key, 4-0, and Boonsboro, 5-...
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Francis Scott Key (August 1, 1779 – January 11, 1843) [3] was an American lawyer, author, and poet from Frederick, Maryland, best known as the author of the text of the American national anthem "The Star-Spangled Banner". [4]
Mar 26, 2024 · Who Was Francis Scott Key? Lawyer Francis Scott Key is remembered for writing the lyrics of “The Star-Spangled Banner,” which is now the national anthem of the United States. Born in...
Jul 28, 2024 · Francis Scott Key (born August 1, 1779, Frederick county, Maryland, U.S.—died January 11, 1843, Baltimore) was an American lawyer, best known as the author of the U.S. national anthem, “The Star-Spangled Banner.”
Francis Scott Key, the Reluctant Patriot. The Washington lawyer was an unlikely candidate to write the national anthem; he was against America’s entry into the War of 1812 from the outset. Norman...
Attorney Francis Scott Key witnessed the twenty-five hour bombardment of Fort McHenry from a British troopship anchored some four miles away. He had boarded the ship to negotiate the release of an American civilian imprisoned by the British, and had been detained aboard as the bombardment began. On September 14, 1814, as the dawn’s early ...
Francis Scott Key was a prominent lawyer in Frederick, Maryland and Washington, D.C. He made his name in 1807 defending Justus Eric Bollman and Samuel Swartwout who had been charged with treason in connection to an alleged conspiracy designed by Aaron Burr.
Jul 1, 2016 · Francis Scott Key, a slaveholding lawyer from an old Maryland plantation family, wrote the song that would in 1931 become the national anthem and proclaim our nation “the land of the free.”
