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|  [[File:Perry flag.png|125px]] ||During the [[War of 1812]], the American frigate [[USS Chesapeake|USS ''Chesapeake'']] fought a losing battle against the British frigate HMS ''Shannon'', and as Captain [[James Lawrence]] lay dying he uttered "fight her till she sinks, and don't give up the ship."  His friend and fellow officer [[Oliver Hazard Perry]] took some of those words and had a large blue flag created in time for the [[Battle of Lake Erie]]; the ''Perry Flag'' flew over USS ''Niagara'' to victory near Put-In-Bay, Ohio in September, 1813.

|  [[File:Perry flag.png|125px]] ||During the [[War of 1812]], the American frigate [[USS Chesapeake|USS ''Chesapeake'']] fought a losing battle against the British frigate HMS ''Shannon'', and as Captain [[James Lawrence]] lay dying he uttered "fight her till she sinks, and don't give up the ship."  His friend and fellow officer [[Oliver Hazard Perry]] took some of those words and had a large blue flag created in time for the [[Battle of Lake Erie]]; the ''Perry Flag'' flew over USS ''Niagara'' to victory near Put-In-Bay, Ohio in September, 1813.

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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 referred 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: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.

|  [[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.