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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.     

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|  [[File:1st Navy Jack.JPG|125px]] ||The second jack used by Commodore Hopkins placed a rattlesnake over the words "DON'T TREAD ON ME"; engravings of Hopkins during this period show he did fly such a flag.  The ''First Navy Jack'' is still in use today, flown on the bows of all United States naval warships.

|  [[File:1st Navy Jack.JPG|125px]] ||The second jack used by Commodore Hopkins placed a rattlesnake over the words "DON'T TREAD ON ME"; engravings of Hopkins during this period show he did fly such a flag.  The ''First Navy Jack'' is still in use today, flown on the bows of all United States naval warships.

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==Also See==

==See also==

* [[Rattlesnake (American symbol)]]

* [[Rattlesnake (American symbol)]]

* [[Gadsden Flag]]

* [[Gadsden Flag]]

[[Category:United States of America]]

[[Category:United States of America]]