Every nation is an experiment and every nation is fragile ❤Ty for reacting to this from Missouri 🇺🇸

I honestly wish people would stop recommending this video to reactors/reactors stop picking this video and would instead pick one of the MANY others out there with the proper story of the Star Spangled Banner. This is nothing more than a preacher talking to his congregation, you can even hear their replies in the video, with a highly exaggerated and in many cases just outright wrong information. As an amatuer historian myself this is a breakdown to correct some of the MANY inaccuracies and exaggerations in this video.... 1. This was not a war with the "mother country". This took place during the War of 1812, we were already a nation so we were NOT colonies of the "motherland" England. Also it was Fort McHenry NOT Fort Henry. And the fort WAS a military fort built with other forts in the area to protect Baltimore and the harbor. There were few if ANY women or children in that fort. 2. Francis Scott Key was not there to negotiate the release of prisoners. He was there to get the releae of a SINGLE prisoner, Dr. William Beanes, who was an associate of his. 3. Key was NOT onboard ANY British ships during the bombardment. He had went back to the ship that he had came out on and watched from that. 4. It was NOT the entire British War Fleet. Britian could ill afford to send her main Naval power to the US as she was also in a major conflict with Napoleon of France at the time so her navy was kind of tied up with dealing with France. So what was used was around 18 or so vessels, mostly smaller ships like mortar ships and bomb ketches etc. 5. The flag at Ft McHenry never fell nor was it held up by bodies of "patriots". The British aim was terrible as they had moved their ships out to maximum gun range to try and keep return fire from the fort to a minimum. Only 4 Americans were killed and 24 wounded at Ft. McHenry. 6. There were actually two flags that flew over the fort during this. The first during the night was a smaller 17ftx25ft storm flag due to a rainstorm occuring at the same time of the battle. At dawn as the British began to retreat the flag was ordered to be lowered and the much larger 30ftx42ft Garrison Flag was raised over the fort. Both of these flags were made by Mary Pickersgill. It was the larger 30ftx42ft Garrision flag that became famous as the Star Spangled Banner even though it was the smaller one that flew during the actual battle. So the flag Key saw in the morning would not have been damaged or torn from battle at all.