Harper's encyclopædia of United States history from 458 1906, based upon the plan of Benson John Lossing .. . THE NKW KNOLAND PLAQ. Admiralty Offiee is the flag of a provincialprivateer. The field is white bunting; onthe middle is » green pine-tree, and upon. THE PINE-TREE 382 Williamsburg to demand instant restora-tion of powder to the old magazine, orpayment for it by Governor Dunmore,bore a flag with a rattlesnake upon it,coiled ready to strike, with PatrickHenrys words and the words Donttread on me. It is believed that thefirst American fiag bearing thirteen redand white strip
Harper's encyclopædia of United States history from 458 1906, based upon the plan of Benson John Lossing .. . THE NKW KNOLAND PLAQ. Admiralty Offiee is the flag of a provincialprivateer. The field is white bunting; onthe middle is » green pine-tree, and upon. THE PINE-TREE 382 Williamsburg to demand instant restora-tion of powder to the old magazine, orpayment for it by Governor Dunmore,bore a flag with a rattlesnake upon it,coiled ready to strike, with PatrickHenrys words and the words Donttread on me. It is believed that thefirst American fiag bearing thirteen redand white stripes was a Union fiag pre-sented to the Philadelphia Light Horse byCapt. Abraham JIarkoe, a Dane, probablyearly in 1775. A Union fiag is men-tioned as having been displayed at a gath-ering of Whigs at Savannah in June, 1775,probably thirteen stripes. The earliestnaval flags exhibited thirteen alternatered and white stripes, some with a, pine-tree upon them, and others with a rattle-snake stretched across the field of stripes,and beneath It the words, either implor-ingly or as a warning, Dont tread onme. The new Union flag raised at Cam-bridge, Jan. 1, 1776, was composed of thiT FLAG, NATIONAI, teen alternate red and white stripes, with claimed to be the first
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