![]() “The British navy had been terrorizing the Atlantic coast, particularly the Chesapeake Bay area, from the start of the war. Here’s how we tell it in our post “The Burning of Washington and the Battle of New Orleans”: It pinpoints a distinct historical moment, being an inspired first-hand account of the moment of national anxiety we experienced during the War of 1812 at the Battle of Fort McHenry (see more on that here). ![]() ![]() When I was growing up it was also chastised for being militaristic–“America the Beautiful” would have been a better choice of anthem, according to some (of course, we’ve got nothing on “La Marseillaise” for blood-thirstiness in anthems).īut here at the HP we like our anthem. It has a bad reputation for being very hard to sing, and for arcane language that comics love to make fun of.
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