. The stars and stripes, from Washington to Wilson, 1777-1914 .. . Jack was first applied to the flag of England — the unionof Englands and Scotlands crosses of St. George and St. Andrew,ordered in 1606, for English and Scotch ships, by James I, whose namein French is Jacques. The flag was then called Jacques Flag, andlater simply the Jack. This Jack was adopted by Parliament in 1707,modified in 1801, by the addition of the cross of St. Patrick, and theJack of the United Kingdom became the flag of the British Empire, asit is to-day. The Stars and Stripes A flag of thirteen horizontal red and w
. The stars and stripes, from Washington to Wilson, 1777-1914 .. . Jack was first applied to the flag of England — the unionof Englands and Scotlands crosses of St. George and St. Andrew,ordered in 1606, for English and Scotch ships, by James I, whose namein French is Jacques. The flag was then called Jacques Flag, andlater simply the Jack. This Jack was adopted by Parliament in 1707,modified in 1801, by the addition of the cross of St. Patrick, and theJack of the United Kingdom became the flag of the British Empire, asit is to-day. The Stars and Stripes A flag of thirteen horizontal red and white stripes, with the redcross of St. George on a white canton, was the distinguishingmark of flagships in the British Navy in the eighteenth similar flag was flown on vessels of the East India Light Horse Troop, of Philadelphia, carried, in 1775, theMarkoe Banner, with a canton of thirteen stripes alternate blueand silver. Washingtons family coat of arms bore red five-pointed stars, one point upward, and red and white THE GRAND UNION FLAG, 1776 The Grand Union Flag was the Continental standard fromJanuary, 1776, until superseded by the Stars and Stripes in Journals of the Continental Congress tell us that BenjaminHarrison of Virginia, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, andThomas Lynch of South Carolina, were appointed, in September,1775, a committee to confer with Washington and others onregulating a Continental army. The committee was in Wash-ingtons camp at Cambridge, Massachusetts, late in October,1775; and, on January 1, 1776, Washington hoisted at the armyheadquarters, in Cambridge, a flag of thirteen stripes, red and From Washington to Wilson white alternately, with the English Union cantoned in the is probable that this Grand Union Flag had been approved bythe visiting committee of Congress, and was the national ensignunder which the fleet of Commodore Esek Hopkins sailed fromPhiladelphia in February, 1776;
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