. The story of the Union Jack; how it grew and what it is, particularly in its connection with the history of Canada. if ^ ^ 7. Arms of thkWashington Family stripes, alternate red and white; that theUnion be thirteen stars, white in a bhie field, representing a new constella-tion. A further delay ensued,l)ut at length this flag wasotticially proclaimed on Sep-tember 3rd, 1777, as the UnionFlag of the United States (, fig. 2), and was the firstnational flag adopted by theauthority of Washington himself suggested the firstdesion, and had introduced the second, it isnot improba
. The story of the Union Jack; how it grew and what it is, particularly in its connection with the history of Canada. if ^ ^ 7. Arms of thkWashington Family stripes, alternate red and white; that theUnion be thirteen stars, white in a bhie field, representing a new constella-tion. A further delay ensued,l)ut at length this flag wasotticially proclaimed on Sep-tember 3rd, 1777, as the UnionFlag of the United States (, fig. 2), and was the firstnational flag adopted by theauthority of Washington himself suggested the firstdesion, and had introduced the second, it isnot improbable, and,indeed, it is recordedthat he had somethingto do with the design-ino- of the final one.*Howeyer this last re-port may be, his friendsand admirers most cer-tainly had, and thesimilarity between the•design of the new flag 1 >i - p , r^ ^f S. Washingtons Book-Plate. and the coat-oi-arms or the Washington family points to the source. * Ross Episode, Preble, p. 205. Origins of National Flags. 29 of the design. Upon the tombstone in Sul-grave Church, Northamptonshire, England, wasto be seen the shield (7) of the Weshyntons,or Washingtons, an old English comity family,who traced their lineage back into the fom^-teentli century. John Washington, a descendant of thisfamily, had been a loval cavalier, standing;.staunchly Ijy his King, Charles I. When
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