The standards, flags and banners of the Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution (1913)
Sons of the Revolution. Pennsylvania Society · Philadelphia, The Society · leaf 51
mes as one device a rattlesnake rearing its crest and shaking itsrattles, and having the motto, Dont tread on me. De Benvouloir, the emissary of Vergennes, in 1775, reportsto the Frencli minister: They have given up the English flagand have taken for their device a rattlesnake with thirteen… … NAVAL PRIVATEER FLAG USED BV CONTINENTAL AS WELL AS BY AMERICAN PRIVATEER VESSELS 27 10. Naval Privateer Flag Used Duringthe Revolution This flag of thirteen alternate yellow and black stripes—sometimes varied by thirteen yellow and white stripes*—wasused, according to Preble in his History of the…
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