. A history of the United States of America, its people, and its institutions. th Governor Dun-more, in 1775, some of them bore a banner with the device of a rattle-snake, and the injunction, Dont tread on me ! It also bore PatrickHenrys words, Liberty or death. This flag was replaced in Massa-chusetts by one bearing a pine-tree, the favorite emblem of that colony,and the words, An appeal to heaven. The flag hoisted by ColonelMoultrie on Fort Sullivan, in Charleston harbor, was blue in color,with a white or silver crescent in the right-hand corner, and the word Liberty. Washington, at Cambridg
. A history of the United States of America, its people, and its institutions. th Governor Dun-more, in 1775, some of them bore a banner with the device of a rattle-snake, and the injunction, Dont tread on me ! It also bore PatrickHenrys words, Liberty or death. This flag was replaced in Massa-chusetts by one bearing a pine-tree, the favorite emblem of that colony,and the words, An appeal to heaven. The flag hoisted by ColonelMoultrie on Fort Sullivan, in Charleston harbor, was blue in color,with a white or silver crescent in the right-hand corner, and the word Liberty. Washington, at Cambridge, used a flag with thirteen redand white stripes and the British Union Jack in the corner. Anotherflag, of which a drawing exists, bore the thirteen stripes-, with a rattle-snake undulating diagonally across them. Congress first adopted aflag in June, 1777, which bore thirteen stripes and thirteen stars re-placing the Union Jack. The first flag of this pattern was made byBetsy Ross, of Philadelphia. The new flag was lirst displayed at sea THE STRUGGLE FOR INDEPENDENCE. 215. Pine-Tree Flag. The British and Indian Panic.—Schuyler, learning of theperil of the garrison, sent Arnold with twelve hundred mento its relief. Arnold did his work bystratagem instead of arms. He held ahalf-witted Tory under sentence of death,but promised him liberty if he wouldseek St. Legers camp and scare the In-dians with tales of a great force of Ameri-cans close at hand. The envoy did hiswork well. Running breathless amongthe savages, with bullet-holes adroitlyshot through his clothes, he declared thathe had barely escaped from a vast host,indicating their numbers by pointing tothe leaves on the trees. The Indians, discouraged by their lossat Oriskany, took hastily to flight. TheBritish followed, in such a panic thatthey left their tents and artillery behindthem, to become the prey of the astonished garrison, Avhoknew nothing of the cause of the flight. Arnold had de-feated them by the mere news of
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