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American historical flags (view source)
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| [[File:An_Appeal_to_Heaven_Flag.svg|125px]] ||The flag of ''Washington's Cruisers'', commonly known as the [[Pine Tree Flag]] - is the flag of the fleet of ships that comprised the Massachusetts Navy. The Massachusetts Navy was the precursor to the [[United States Navy]].
| [[File:An_Appeal_to_Heaven_Flag.svg|125px]] ||The flag of ''Washington's Cruisers'', commonly known as the [[Pine Tree Flag]] - is the flag of the fleet of ships that comprised the Massachusetts Navy. The Massachusetts Navy was the precursor to the [[United States Navy]].
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| [[File:Striped Jack.png|125px]] ||This flag was flown by the [[Sons of Liberty]] during the [[Boston Tea Party]], earning the sobriquet ''Rebellious Stripes''; it may also have been ''"the striped jack"'' referred to in the letters of Commodore Esek Hopkins as one of the first flags of the Continental Navy during the [[American Revolution]]
| [[File:Striped Jack.png|125px]] ||This flag was flown by the [[Sons of Liberty]] during the [[Boston Tea Party]], earning the sobriquet ''Rebellious Stripes''; it may also have been ''"the striped jack"'' referred to in the letters of [[Commodore Esek Hopkins]] as one of the first flags of the Continental Navy during the [[American Revolution]]
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| [[File:CulpeperMinuteMen.jpg|125px]] ||The 1st Virginia Regiment consisted of about three hundred militiamen under the command of Colonel [[Patrick Henry]]; one hundred of these men were from the town of Culpeper, and as all of them marched to Williamsburg in October-November 1775, the Culpeper men flew this flag, based on the symbolism that the rattlesnake represented for the American colonies, with Henry's patriotic words added as well.
| [[File:CulpeperMinuteMen.jpg|125px]] ||The 1st Virginia Regiment consisted of about three hundred militiamen under the command of Colonel [[Patrick Henry]]; one hundred of these men were from the town of Culpeper, and as all of them marched to Williamsburg in October-November 1775, the Culpeper men flew this flag, based on the symbolism that the rattlesnake represented for the American colonies, with Henry's patriotic words added as well.