Many days of negotiation eventually led to Barnes' release. Key and Skinner arrived in the Chesapeake Bay on an American truce ship and boarded the HMS Tonnant, commanded by Admiral Alexander Cochrane. William Beanes, an American physician arrested as a spy.
Key witnessed the battle after he and John Stuart Skinner, a lawyer, publisher, and prisoner of war exchange officer, had been permitted by President James Madison to negotiate the freedom of Dr. On September 14, 1814, after witnessing the failed bombardment of Fort McHenry by the British, Francis Scott Key, a Georgetown lawyer and poet, wrote the contrafactum song, " Defence of Fort McHenry," a four stanza poem to be sung to the popular tune " Anacreon in Heaven" by English composer John Stafford Smith which would later be known as the Star-Spangled Banner. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division.
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