Rather than address claims against the song, it would be my pleasure to look at what makes our national anthem so great.

What do you do when you are short of manpower and have a vast naval fleet?

For over two years the hostilities continued. There was the Battle of the Thames, where Tecumseh was killed; the attack ...

It was the first of many incursions into Canadian territory. The United States launched these invasions based on long-standing differences with Great Britain such as trade restrictions and impressment ...

The U.S. government, under president James Madison, was particularly angry about the impressment of some 15,000 Americans into the Royal Navy. “(They) have been dragged on board ships of war of ...

The end result was a navy that built an empire and truly ruled the waves. For the whole of this period impressment – the roving of press gangs round English towns conscripting men to serve – was ...