Colonial Flags - American Revolutionary War Flags
Colonial Flags - American Revolutionary War Flags
1) The Tree Flag (or the Appeal to Heaven Flag) featured a pine tree with the motto "An Appeal to Heaven," or less frequently "An Appeal to God", was originally used by a squadron of six frigates which were commissioned under George Washington's authority as Commander-in-chief of the Continental Army in October 1775. The design of the flag came from General Washington's secretary, Colonel Joseph Reed. In a letter dated October 21, 1775, Reed suggested a "flag with a white ground and a tree in the middle, the motto AN APPEAL TO HEAVEN"
2) These colors were captured by the Hessians either on August 27, 1776, at the Battle of Long Islands, or Oct. 28, 1776, at the Battle of White Plains. A German account, listing the earlier date, belittles the skill of the American troops who surrendered under this flag, but it was only a few weeks later that the same Hessians under Colonel Rall surrendered to General Washington at Trenton, Dec. 26, 1776. The design on the flag is taken from an undated engraving.
3) The so-called Whiskey Rebels made use of various flags during their rebellion. The most common flags used were a simple white flag with red stripes, usually hung from a liberty pole, and a flag bearing the inscription "Equal Taxation and no Excise - No Asylum for Traitors and Cowards." The most elaborate flag with an eagle holding a ribbon it its beak, and thirteen six-pointed stars scattered about the field is now most commonly associated with the Whiskey Rebellion. This design was common in post-American Revolution Federalist flags. It is possible that this eagle and stripes flag actually had a relationship with the Federal Army, rather than the Whiskey Rebels. At best, it seems that it was a relatively minor flag compared to others used in the rebellion.
4) This is a flag from the American Revolution: that of the First Pennsylvania Rifles, a militia troop, of sorts. The PM refers to "Pennsylvania Militia", and the i R is "1st Rifles."The legend refers to the American's desire to be free from the King of England.
Nick Artimovich, 25 April 1996. The flag was raised as Thompson's Rifle Regiment or Battalion in 1776; renamed 1st Pa in 1777, and was also known as the 1st Continental Regiment.
5) This standard was carried by General Sullivan's Life Guards Company during the 1778 battle of Rhode Island. General Sullivan led the expedition against the Iroquois and Loyalist forces that were raiding Western Pennsylvania and New York.
6) The Betsy Ross flag is a reconstructed early design for the flag of the United States, which is conformant to the Flag Act of 1777 and has red stripes outermost and stars arranged in a circle. These details elaborate on the 1777 act, passed early in the American Revolutionary War, which specified 13 alternating red and white horizontal stripes and 13 white stars in a blue canton. Its name stems from the story, once widely believed, that shortly after the 1777 act, upholsterer and flag maker Betsy Ross produced a flag of this design
7) The Green Mountain Boys flag, also known as the Stark flag, is a reconstruction of a regimental flag commonly stated to have been used by the Green Mountain Boys. A remnant of a Green Mountain Boys flag, originally belonging to John Stark, is owned by the Bennington Museum. It still exists as one of the few regimental flags from the American Revolution. Although Stark was at the Battle of Bennington and likely flew this flag, the battle has become more commonly associated with the Bennington flag, which is believed to be a 19th-century banner
8) Perhaps the first flag to symbolize the colonies using thirteen stars is the flag used by the military battery of Providence, RI, called the United Train of Artillery, organized in 1775. The field was yellow with a fouled anchor, two cannons, scrolls with mottos and coiled rattlesnake circled by thirteen blue five-pointed stars. The flag is preserved at the Historical Society Museum in Providence.
9) The 2nd Continental Light Dragoons, also known as Sheldon's Horse after Colonel Elisha Sheldon, was commissioned by the Continental Congress on December 12, 1776,[1] and was first mustered at Wethersfield, Connecticut, in March 1777 for service with the Continental Army. The regiment consisted of four troops from Connecticut, one troop each largely from Massachusetts and New Jersey, and two companies of light infantry. The device, repeated on all of the flags, depicts ten bolts of lightning emanating outwards from a winged and fulminating thundercloud. The motto beneath the thundercloud on the national colors reads: “PATA CONCITA FULMNT NATI” - an abbreviated form of what is thought to be the Latin phrase of “Patria Concita Fulminent Nati”. This phrase has a number of interpretations, and been translated to something along the lines of: “The fatherland/country calls/expects its sons to respond with/in tones of thunder”.
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10) Pulaski's Legion was a cavalry and infantry regiment raised on March 28, 1778 at Baltimore, Maryland under the command of Polish-born General Casimir Pulaski and Hungarian nobleman Michael Kovats de Fabriczy for their service with the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. The Legion consisted of one troop of lancers, two troops of dragoons, and 200 light infantry soldiers. It was one of the few cavalry regiments in the Continental Army. 11) The Gostelowe Standard No 10 on page 192 of Richardson's Standards and Colors of the American Revolution. Someone pointed out to me that one of the Gostelowe flags had sold at an auction a few years ago and the stars in the canton were different than the speculative drawing in the book. The ribbon on the flag reads "Resistance to Tyrants is Obedience to God". 12) An American Revolutionary War Militia raised in Pennsylvania as early as 1774, The Hanover Associators were simple “working Class” Colonists. Numbering at one point no greater than 50 men, they had a “Personal” Flag which was Red in it's entirety. Their symbol was a Hunter (in full color) with the phrase “Liberty or Death” emblazoned beneath. Losses through the War found them deactivated by 1777. 13) Lee's Legion (also known as the 2nd Partisan Corps) was a military unit within the Continental Army during the American Revolution. It primarily served in the Southern Theater of Operations, and gained a reputation for efficiency, bravery on the battlefield and ruthlessness equal to that of Tarleton's Raiders. The original unit was raised June 8, 1776, at Williamsburg, Virginia, under the command of Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee for service with the 1st Continental Light Dragoons of the Continental Army. 14) The Bennington flag is a version of the American flag associated with the American Revolution Battle of Bennington, from which it derives its name. Its distinguishing feature is the inclusion of a large '76' in the canton, a reference to the year 1776 when the Declaration of Independence was signed. One legend claims that the original Bennington flag was carried off the field by Nathaniel Fillmore and passed down through the Fillmore family, and was, at one time, in the possession of President Millard Fillmore, Nathaniel's grandson. Philetus P. Fillmore flew a Bennington flag in 1877, to commemorate the Battle of Bennington 15) The Moultrie Flag, also known as the Liberty Flag, was a flag flown in the American Revolutionary War. The Liberty flag was designed, by commission, in 1775 by Colonel William Moultrie, to prepare for war with Great Britain. It was flown by his troops in the successful defense of Sullivan's Island against the British fleet in June 1776. 16) Morgan's Riflemen or Morgan's Rifles, previously Morgan's Sharpshooters, and the one named Provisional Rifle Corps, were an elite light infantry unit commanded by General Daniel Morgan in the American Revolutionary War, which served a vital role executing his tasks because it was equipped with what was then the cutting-edge rifle instead of muskets, allowing for a Rifleman to have an effective range of double that of the average Infantryman. 17) The 2nd New Hampshire Regiment was formed in early May 1775, as the second of three Continental Army regiments raised by the state of New Hampshire during the American Revolutionary War. Its first commander was Colonel Enoch Poor, with Joseph Cilley as major. Many of the men who served in the unit hailed from southeastern New Hampshire and western Maine (then part of Massachusetts). During the first part of its service, the regiment took part in the siege of Boston, and there is a link below in the reference section to the orderly book of an officer in the unit during that time. 18) In late 1775, as the first ships of the Continental Navy readied in the Delaware River, Commodore Esek Hopkins issued an instruction directing his vessels to fly a "striped" jack and ensign. The exact design of these flags is unknown. But, since about 1880, this jack has traditionally been depicted as consisting of thirteen red and white stripes charged with an uncoiled rattlesnake and the motto "Dont Tread on Me" [sic]; this design appeared in a color plate in Admiral George Henry Preble's influential History of the Flag of the United States. Recent scholarship, however, has demonstrated that this design never existed but "was a 19th-century mistake based on an erroneous 1776 engraving" 19) Join, or Die. is a political cartoon showing the disunity in the American colonies. Attributed to Benjamin Franklin, the original publication by The Pennsylvania Gazette on May 9, 1754, is the earliest known pictorial representation of colonial union produced by an American colonist in Colonial America. 20) The flag is named for Christopher Gadsden, South Carolina delegate to the Continental Congress and brigadier general in the Continental Army. Gadsden designed the flag in 1775 during the American Revolution. He gifted it to Commodore Esek Hopkins, and the flag was unfurled on the main mast of Hopkins' flagship, USS Alfred, on December 20, 1775. Two days later, Congress made Hopkins commander-in-chief of the Continental Navy. He adopted the Gadsden banner as his personal flag, flying it "from the mainmast of the flagship" while he was aboard. The Continental Marines also flew the flag during the early part of the war.
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21) The Culpeper Minutemen were organized on July 17, 1775 in the district created by the Third Virginia Convention consisting of the counties of Orange, Fauquier and Culpeper. Recruitment began in September 1775 with four companies of 50 men from Fauquier and Culpeper counties each and two companies of 50 men from Orange County. The District Committee of Safety determined that the militia was to meet under a large oak tree in "Clayton's old field" on the Catalpa estate near today's Yowell Meadow Park in Culpeper, Virginia. 22) Serapis is a name given to an unconventional, early United States ensign flown from the captured British frigate Serapis. At the 1779 Battle of Flamborough Head, U.S. Navy Captain John Paul Jones captured the Serapis, but his own ship, the Bonhomme Richard, sank, and her ensign had been blown from the mast into the sea during the battle. Jones, now commanding the Serapis without having a U.S. ensign to fly on it, sailed to the island port of Texel, which belonged to the neutral Dutch United Provinces. Officials from Britain argued that Jones was a pirate, since he sailed a captured vessel flying no known national ensign. 23) The Guilford Courthouse Flag is the name given to a North Carolina militia banner which was reported to have flown at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse (March 15, 1781, Greensboro, North Carolina). The flag is recognizable by the reverse colors normally seen on American flags: red and blue stripes in the field with eight-pointed blue stars on an elongated white canton. 24) The flag of New England has two prominent symbols: a pine tree and red color. Other features, like the St. George's Cross, are not always displayed on the flag, but the pine almost always is. There is a blue ensign and a red ensign variant. In each, St. George's cross is in the canton, whose top left corner is defaced with an image of a pine. Sometimes the blue ensign is defaced with six stars in a circle symbolizing the six states of New England. Another variant has a red ensign with an image of a pine tree over a white field in the canton, and contains no cross; which is commonly used by the New England Revolution Major League Soccer team. The red ensign was a common banner for other American colonies as well, but the addition of a pine tree distinguished the New England colonies from their neighbors. 25) The Bunker Hill Flag is said to have flown at the Battle of Bunker Hill early in the American Revolution. It features a dark blue flag with the English St. George's Cross in the canton (the upper left corner), as well as a pine tree in the upper left quarter of the canton. St. George was the patron saint of England and his flag was used as the English flag since the time of King Henry VIII. 26) During the War of 1812, this flag flew aboard Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry's flagship "Lawrence" while commanding an American squadron in the Battle of Lake Erie on September 10, 1813. Commodore Perry had named his ship after Captain James Lawrence, the hero of an earlier sea battle off New England whose dying words were "Don't Give Up The Ship". Made In The USA 27) The Bedford Flag is the oldest known flag in the United States. It is associated with the Minutemen of Bedford, Massachusetts, and the Battles of Lexington and Concord of 1775. The painted-on design depicts an armored arm grasping a straight sword coming out of a cloud. The two sides are asymmetrical; the sword appears behind the motto on one side and appears in front of it on the other. The Latin motto VINCE AUT MORIRE ("Win Or Die") reads from top to bottom on one side and from bottom to top on the other. 28) Sentiments of the U.S. Founding Fathers inspired the text on this flag, while the famous "Liberty Tree" found its way onto this Revolutionary War-era flag. As depicted in Flags of the World, by McCandless and Grosvenor, published 1917. 29) The flag of Taunton, Massachusetts, also known as the Taunton Flag and the Liberty and Union Flag, is the city flag of Taunton, Massachusetts, United States. The flag was first adopted in 1774 and has since been adopted as the flag of Taunton. It consists of the Red Ensign with the flag of Great Britain in canton, defaced with the words "Liberty and Union" across the lower portion. 30) The George Rogers Clark Flag is a red and green striped banner in the model of American Flags commonly associated with George Rogers Clark, although Colonel Clark did not campaign under these colors. The "Clark" flag was made in Vincennes, Indiana, and likely flew over Fort Sackville even before Clark arrived. 31) The Fort Mercer Flag is a variant of the American flag flown at Fort Mercer around 1777 during the American Revolution. This unique flag had inverted colors similar to that of the Serapis flag. Some replicas of the flag usually contain inverted stars and a wider ratio. 32) The Philadelphia Light Horse was the first flag to feature the Thirteen Stripes, each representing a colony. The Philadelphia City Cavalry, the first American armed force and established alongside the Continental Congress, fought under this banner at the Battles of Trenton, Princeton, Brandywine, and Germantown. 33) The Sons of Liberty was a loosely organized, clandestine, sometimes violent, political organization active in the Thirteen American Colonies founded to advance the rights of the colonists and to fight taxation by the British government. It played a major role in most colonies in battling the Stamp Act in 1765 and throughout the entire period of the American Revolution. 34) In April 1776, the Massachusetts State Navy adopted, as its flag (naval ensign), a white field charged with a green pine tree and the motto "An Appeal to Heaven." In 1971 the motto was removed, and the flag was designated "the naval and maritime flag of the Commonwealth"
It's May of 2024 and there is a "controversy" because supreme court justice Alito was "caught" flying the liberty tree flag at his home. Quite a sad moment in American history.
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thank-you for this video.
Correction: the Whiskey Rebellion took place after the revolution
The Green Mountain Boys were about to side with the Loyalists....let's not get too misty eyed about history like it is Disney
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