text:  and get you through the process easy and painlessly. All right, our question today, words for the U.S. National Anthem came from a poem written by Francis Scott Key. You probably know that. During the War of 1812, September 13th, 1814, Key watched a nighttime battle between Great Britain and America take place in Baltimore, Maryland at Fort McHenry. Another interesting story about a national anthem. The Algerian National Anthem was originally written in blood.