Harper's encyclopædia of United States history from 458 1906, based upon the plan of Benson John Lossing .. . .). Flag, National. Every colony hadits peculiar ensign, and the army and navyof the united colonies, at first, displayedvarious flags, some colonial, others regi-mental, and others, like the flag at FortSullivan, Charleston Harbor, a blue fieldwith a silver crescent, for special oc-casions. The American fiag used at thebattle on Bunker (Breeds) Hill, wascalled the New England flag. It wasa blue ground, with the red cross of in a corner, quartering a whitefield, and in
Harper's encyclopædia of United States history from 458 1906, based upon the plan of Benson John Lossing .. . .). Flag, National. Every colony hadits peculiar ensign, and the army and navyof the united colonies, at first, displayedvarious flags, some colonial, others regi-mental, and others, like the flag at FortSullivan, Charleston Harbor, a blue fieldwith a silver crescent, for special oc-casions. The American fiag used at thebattle on Bunker (Breeds) Hill, wascalled the New England flag. It wasa blue ground, with the red cross of in a corner, quartering a whitefield, and in the upper dexter quarteringwas the figure of a pine-tree. The NewEnglanders had also a pine-tree flag aswell as a pine-tree shilling. The en-graving below is a reduced copy ofa vignette on a map of Boston, pub-lished in Paris in 1776. The LondonChronicle, an anti-ministerial paper, in itsissue for January, 1776, gives the follow-ing description of the flag of an Americancruiser that had been captured: In the the opposite side is the motto Appealto Heaven. The Culpeper men, whomarched with Patrick Henry towards. 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
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