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戳图直达本期配套模仿跟读节目~欢迎参加~>▽<为了勉励国民保家卫国，美英1812年战争转折之战的旗帜保存至今。
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"The Star-Spangled Banner"
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口语节目地址：http://bulo.hujiang.com/menu/11921/item/654694/http://t1.g.hjfile.cn/listen/201209/201209130822022589897.mp3This is a really big year at Fort McHenry, a star-shaped fortification overlooking the harbor in Baltimore, Maryland.
Baltimore and a few other places are commemorating the 200th anniversary of the start of what Americans call "the War of 1812", even though it wasn't finished until 1815. Fort McHenry and an oversized flag that flew above it, played a memorable part in that war.
What is sometimes called our nation's "Second War of Independence" against Britain was not going well for the young United States when Fort McHenry came into play in September of 1814. The British had torched the White House and Capitol in Washington and they headed north to Baltimore. Their gunships pounded Fort McHenry mercilessly for 25 straight hours. If it fell, the harbor would be under British control, and so would Baltimore. But at dawn, as Francis Scott Key, a Washington lawyer who observed the shelling, wrote in a poem, a miraculous visage of "broad stripes and bright stars" of the U.S. flag appeared, still "gallantly streaming" over Fort McHenry.
Thwarted and out of ammunition, the British sailed away and eventually lost the war after a rout at the Battle of New Orleans in Louisiana and Key's verses became the words to the U.S. national anthem "The Star-Spangled Banner".在麦克亨利堡，今年意义重大。麦克亨利堡是一个星型要塞，俯瞰马里兰州巴尔的摩的港口。
巴尔的摩和其他几个地方正在纪念一场战争开端的200年纪念日，美国人称之为“1812年战争”，尽管这场战争直到1815年才结束。麦克亨利堡和飘扬在堡垒上方的一面超大旗帜在那场战争中起的重要作用令人难忘。
这场抵抗英国的战争有时也被称作美国的“第二次独立战争”，对当时还很年轻的美国来说，这场仗打得并不顺利，直到1814年9月麦克亨利堡发挥作用。英国人当时焚毁了华盛顿的白宫和国会大厦，接着北上巴尔的摩。他们的战舰连续25小时对麦克亨利堡进行了无情的狂轰滥炸。如果它失守了，那么港口就会落到英国人手里，巴尔的摩也会失陷。但是，在黎明时分，一位名叫Francis Scott Key的华盛顿律师目击了炮轰，他在一首诗里描述了神奇的一幕，美国国旗上的“宽条纹和明亮的星”出现了，它在麦克亨利堡上空“英勇地迎风招展”。
英国人遭遇了挫败，用尽了弹药，只好返航，随后又在路易斯安那州的新奥尔良港被击溃，于是输掉了战争。而Key的诗歌也成为了美国国歌“星条旗永不落”的歌词。
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