The New International Encyclopædia/America (hymn)

AMERICA. The American national hymn, by the Rev. Samuel F. Smith (1832). The melody, ascribed to Henry Carey (1742), is identical with that of the English national anthem, “God Save the King,” and, popular in France from 1775, became national in Denmark, Germany, and Prussia.

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