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The first battle of the Revolutionary War and the start towards American independence -
a war that was fought on the sea and on the land in the war of 1812 -
the words for the Star Spangled Banner were made by Francis Scott Key on September 14th, 1814 and it was adopted as the national anthem by U.S. Congress in 1931 -
The Battle of the Alamo was part of the Texas Revolution were the state became independent and later part of the U.S. -
an unknown explosion sank the battleship U.S.S. Maine in the Havana, Cuba harbor, killing 266 people