excellent narrative!
I am proudly sharing a website my teen son (homeschooled) created as his end of term 10th grade American history project. He had to choose en event that changed the history of America and he chose the Battle of Ft McHenry and the writing of the SSB. We both learned a lot about the War of 1812. He was especially fascinated with how the Brits ate the President’s dinner before they burned the White House
http://star-spangled-banner.weebly.com/
I thought “the Dawn’s Early Light” by Walter Lord was pretty good at telling what a close call young America had.