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| [[File:15 star flag.png|125px]] ||The United States flag bearing fifteen stars and fifteen stripes was adopted May 1, 1795, but a naval officer noted that future stripes would make the flag overburdened, and suggested to a congressman that the number of stripes remain fixed at 13. This particular flag would be refered to as the ''Star Spangled Banner'' after a gigantic version of it was flown during the British bombardment of Ft. McHenry near Baltimore, Maryland in September, 1814; the sight of it would inspire [[Francis Scott Key]] to write the poem for which it is named.
| [[File:15 star flag.png|125px]] ||The United States flag bearing fifteen stars and fifteen stripes was adopted May 1, 1795, but a naval officer noted that future stripes would make the flag overburdened, and suggested to a congressman that the number of stripes remain fixed at 13. This particular flag would be refered to as the ''Star Spangled Banner'' after a gigantic version of it was flown during the British bombardment of Ft. McHenry near Baltimore, Maryland in September, 1814; the sight of it would inspire [[Francis Scott Key]] to write the poem for which it is named.
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| [[File:Alamo flag.png|125px]] ||This flag, a variation of the colors of [[Mexico]], flew over the [[Alamo]] for two weeks before the final battle there on March 6, 1836. The number "1824" was a reminder to Mexico's dictator at the time, Generalisimo Antonio de Santa Anna, that the colonists of the territory of Tejas (Texas) were under the authority of the Constitution of 1824, a document he abrogated.
| [[File:Come and Take It flag.png|125px]] ||The Battle of Gonzales, a minor skirmish on October 2, 1835 which started the Texas Revolution, was fought over a single small cannon given originally to settlers in Gonzales by Mexican authorities to help protect against marauding Indians; feeling the growing unrest in 1835, a Mexican colonel demanded the cannon's return, prompting the skirmish. The ''Come And Take It'' flag has been used since then, not only as a symbol of Texas pride, but as a symbol of [[Second Amendment]] rights, with variations of the flag made having the cannon replaced by current military-style rifles.
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| [[File:Alamo flag.png|125px]] ||This flag, a variation of the colors of [[Mexico]], flew over the [[Alamo]] for two weeks before the final battle there on March 6, 1836. The number "1824" was a reminder to Mexico's dictator at the time, Generalisimo Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, that the colonists of the territory of Tejas (Texas) were under the authority of the Constitution of 1824, a document he abrogated.
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| [[File:BearFlag.png|125px]] ||The California, or Bear Flag Republic, was an attempt by American colonists in Sonoma, California to declare independence from Mexico under the dictatorship of Santa Anna. Created on June 14, 1846, the new republic lasted a mere 25 days before U.S. Army Major [[John C. Fremont]] took control away from the colonists and replaced the Bear Flag with the Stars and Stripes. The elements of this flag survive today in the current flag of the state of California.
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| [[Image:Bonnieblue.png|125px]] ||The ''Bonnie Blue'' flag, unofficial first flag of the [[Confederate States of America]], and first flown January 9, 1861 over the state capitol building of Jackson, Mississippi. Originally, it was used by settlers of west Florida in a short, 74-day republic after they had revolted against the Spanish government, raising it at the Spanish fort in Baton Rouge on September 23, 1810.
| [[Image:Bonnieblue.png|125px]] ||The ''Bonnie Blue'' flag, unofficial first flag of the [[Confederate States of America]], and first flown January 9, 1861 over the state capitol building of Jackson, Mississippi. Originally, it was used by settlers of west Florida in a short, 74-day republic after they had revolted against the Spanish government, raising it at the Spanish fort in Baton Rouge on September 23, 1810.