FYI, Ruben, "The Star-Spangled Banner" was first written by Francis Scott Key on September 14, 1814 as a poem called "The Defense of Fort McHenry," which commemorated an action in the Battle of Baltimore during the latter stage of the Anglo-American War of 1812. It actually has nothing to do with the fight for U.S. independence that having been declared 38 years prior during the Revolutionary War on July 4, 1776. It was later set to the tune of an 18th century English drinking song and renamed "The Star-Spangled Banner" at that time, and became the national anthem in 1931. The War of 1812 was an ambitiously misbegotten war undertaken by the United States in part to seize Canada from Great Britain, which was then distracted by its struggle with Napoleonic France. The war did not go well, and when Napoleon was finally defeated and the British turned their attention to North America, things got even worse for the Americans. We were very lucky that the war ended in a rough stalemate.