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national anthem

Patriotic song for official occasions. The US national anthem, ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’, was written in 1814 by Francis Scott Key and was adopted officially in 1931. In Britain ‘God Save the King/Queen’ has been accepted as the national anthem since 1745, although both music and words are of much earlier origin. The German anthem ‘Deutschland über Alles/Germany before Everything’ is sung to music by Joseph Haydn.

The French national anthem, the ‘Marseillaise’, dates from 1792.



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Thornbury remarked that she was still in the habit of saying Queen instead of King in the National Anthem.
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Thomson; Ensigns Hicks and Grady; the band on the pier playing the national anthem, and the crowd loudly cheering the gallant veterans as they went into Wayte's hotel, where a sumptuous banquet was provided for the defenders of Old England.
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