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| [[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]]
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| [[File:1st Navy Jack.JPG|125px]] ||The second jack used by 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.
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| [[File:Gadsden flag.png|125px]] ||The flag chosen by Commodoore Hopkins as his personal standard was designed by Colonel Christopher Gadsden of South Carolina, and presented to the Contnental Congress in 1776. Hopkins flew this flag during the first amphibious invasion conducted by the American Navy in the [[Bahama Islands]].
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| [[File:Grand Union Flag.png|125px]] ||Considered the first flag of the United States, the ''Grand Union Flag'' was in use from late 1775 until mid 1777.
| [[File:Grand Union Flag.png|125px]] ||Considered the first flag of the United States, the ''Grand Union Flag'' was in use from late 1775 until mid 1777.
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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.
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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.