Read the excerpt below and answer the question. And where is that band who so vauntingly swore That the havoc of war and the bat
tle's confusion, A home and a country, should leave us no more? What is the word vauntingly used to describe in this excerpt from "The Star Spangled Banner"? the destruction caused by the battle the willpower of the American people the terrifying power of the naval ships the overconfidence of the British troops
The Star-Spangled Banner, the national anthem of the United States, has lyrics that come from the Defence of Fort M'Henry, a poem by Francis Scott Key. He wrote it after seeing the attack of Fort McHenry by British troops of the Royal Navy in Baltimore Harbor during the Battle of Baltimore in the War of 1812. Key was inspired by the US flag that had been hoisted after a U.S. victory that the British hadn´t expected.
