The stanzas recount the Battle of Baltimore, a days-long siege between British and American ... Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight The flag he saw wasn’t the flag ...

A British landing force put ashore from ... started fabricating a standard-sized garrison flag — 42 by 30 feet, with 15 stars stretching 26 inches across and two-foot stripes — 15 of them ...

Armistead's widow cut out one of the stars to give to a political ... in the heat of the British bombardment, a smaller flag that was used during bad weather, called a storm flag, very likely ...

Though a number of flags were flown in the Rising, including the Irish Republic flag above the GPO, the Irish Citizen Army Flag, of the Plough and the Stars ... not at the British State but ...