Our country's flag and the flags of foreign countries (1898)
Holden, Edward Singleton, 1846-1914 · New York : D. Appleton and company · leaf 55
North America. The troops fromthe various States were no longer to be Statetroops, but the army of the colonies; and itwas necessary to provide them with a flagthat should belong to the u united colonies,and not to any separate States. The Continental Congress began to fit u THE AMERICAN FLAG. out… … Fig. 8.—The flag of the United Colonies of America, first dis-played in General Washingtons camp, January 2, 1776. adopt a flag for the navy and for the Conti-nental army as well, and the Congress ap-pointed a committee, with Dr. BenjaminFranklin at its head, to go to Cambridge, toconsult with…
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