Block, Siteadmin, SkipCaptcha, Upload, Automoderated users, delete, edit, Moderators, move, protect, rollback, Administrators
27,336
edits
Changes
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
mLine 5:
Line 5: + +
no edit summary
|-
|-
| [[File:Striped Jack.png|125px]] ||This flag was flown by the [[Sons of Liberty]] during the [[Boston Tea Party]], earning it 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 it 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:CulpeperMinuteMen.jpg|125px]] ||The 1st Virginia Regiment consisted of about one three 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: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 U.S. 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 U.S. warships.