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schooner Royal Savage, which was part of Benedict Arnold's Lake Champlain flotilla. The evidence is a watercolor found in the papers of General Philip DeLear, Byron (2014). "Revisiting the Flag at Prospect Hill: Grand Union or Just British?" (PDF). Raven: A Journal of Vexillology. 21: 54. doi: 10.5840/raven2014213. documentary evidence of James Wharton, a Philadelphia merchant, supplying Margaret with material to create flags for the Alfred, with the bill being charged to the Alfred's account on December 2, 1775. This is probably when the Grand Union Flag hoisted by John Paul Jones

Military ensigns [ edit ] The naval ensign and its first salute [ edit ] First official salute to the U.S. flag on board the U.S. warship Andrew Doria in a foreign port, at St. Eustatius in the West Indies, on November 16, 1776

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salute to the American Flag. The USS Andrew Doria was on a mission to St. Eustatius to obtain military supplies and to deliver a copy of the Declaration of Independence to its governor, Johannes de Graaf. Isaiah Robinson, captain of the Andrew Doria, fired a salute from his guns when he approached Fort Orange. History", Our Flag, Federal Citizen Information Center, archived from the original on 2015-02-28 , retrieved 2011-12-13 YACHTING ENSIGN". New York Yacht Club. Archived from the original on April 19, 2016 . Retrieved July 25, 2016. In April 1776, the Massachusetts Navy adopted, as its flag, a white field charged with a green pine tree and the motto "An Appeal to Heaven." In 1971 the motto was removed, and the flag was designated "the naval and maritime flag of the Commonwealth". [21] Merchant and Marine Flag of Maine

Maine also has a separate ensign, which is rarely seen. It features symbols from the current flag and the older one, with a white field and green pine tree. The green pine tree has the seaman's anchor, and the words "MAINE" and "DIRIGO" around it. Dirigo ( Latin "I direct" or "I lead") is the state motto of Maine. Hamilton, Schuyler (1853). History of the National Flag of the United States of America. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co. As the official British flag, the British Red Ensign Flag was the first flag of the American colonies, since they were in fact British colonies. The Grand Union Flag was easy for the colonists to make. All they had to do was take an already existing British Red Ensign, which would have been easily obtainable as it was the official flag of the colonies, and sew 6 strips of white cloth to it. Other historians disagree with the idea that the Grand Union Flag had anything to do with an expression of loyalty to the Crown. They point out that the British Red Ensign was an official navy It was widely believed that the flag was raised by George Washington's army on the 2 January 1776, at Prospect Hill in Charlestown (now part of Somerville), near his headquarters at Cambridge, Massachusetts, (across the Charles River to the north from Boston), which was then surrounding and laying siege to the British forces then occupying the city. [5] It is also stated that the flag was interpreted by British military observers in the city under commanding General Thomas Gage, as a sign of surrender. [6] [7] However, some scholars dispute the traditional account and conclude that the flag raised at Prospect Hill was probably the flag of Great Britain, [8] though subsequent research supports the contrary. [9] [10]a b Naval History & Heritage Command (April 10, 2001). "Frequently Asked Questions: Commissioning Pennant". of 9 red and white vertical stripes flown by the Sons of Liberty in Boston from the Liberty Pole. The 9 stripes represented the 9 states that assembled at the Stamp Act Congress in 1765 to organize against the Stamp Act. The design of both flags' (Customs and Coast Guard) cantons (i.e., the eagle and stars) was altered in 1951 to make them conform to " the arms of the United States," as was specified in Wolcott's original design statement in 1799.

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