The words of the national anthem for which country were written by Francis Scott Key?
USS Francis Scott Key (SSBN-657) USS Francis Scott Key (SSBN-657) USS "Francis Scott Key" (SSBN-657), a ballistic missile submarine, was the only submarine of the United States Navy to be named for Francis Scott Key (1779–1843), an American lawyer, author, and amateur poet who wrote the poem "The Defense of Fort McHenry", which became the words to the United States' national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner". During WW 2 there was a liberty ship USS Francis Scott Key 0016 The contract to build "Francis Scott Key" was awarded to the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corporation in Groton, Connecticut on 29 July 1963 and her
Francis Scott Key Monument Francis Scott Key Monument The Francis Scott Key Monument is an outdoor sculpture to Francis Scott Key in Baltimore, Maryland. Charles Marburg gave $25,000 to his brother Theodore Marburg to hire a sculptor to create a monument to Francis Scott Key. The French sculptor Antonin Mercié was selected. Mercié had previously created a bronze equestrian statue of Robert E. Lee in 1890 in Richmond, Virginia. The sculpture was dedicated on Eutaw Place in 1911. The sculpture was restored and rededicated on September 11, 1999. In September 2017, the monument was vandalized and graffitied with the words "racist anthem" spray painted