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1. francis scott key, key

United States lawyer and poet who wrote a poem after witnessing the British attack on Baltimore during the War of 1812; the poem was later set to music and entitled The Star-Spangled Banner' (1779-1843)

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Francis Scott Key

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American lawyer and poet who wrote "Defense of Fort M'Henry" after witnessing the British attack on Fort McHenry at Baltimore on September 13-14, 1814. The poem was set to the music of an 18th-century tune called "To Anacreon in Heaven," renamed "The Star-Spangled Banner," and adopted by Congress in 1931 as the national anthem.

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