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On this day in 1814, the British faltered in their siege of Baltimore then the most valuable and important port in the United States and by the rockets’ red glare, Francis Scott Key observed the turning point and, the next morning, composed the words for what would become the national anthem in the poem, “Defence of Fort McHenry.” Eighty-two years later, almost to th