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| [[File:Bennington Flag.png|125px]] ||The ''Bennington Flag'' is associated with the Battle of Bennington, Vermont, on August 16, 1777.
| [[File:Bennington Flag.png|125px]] ||The ''Bennington Flag'' is associated with the Battle of Bennington, Vermont, on August 16, 1777.
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| [[File:Green Mountain Boys flag.png|125px]] ||The flag of the ''Green Mountain Boys'' is more properly associated with Bennington than the above flag, as well as several other notable battles during the Revolution under [[Ethan Allen]]. It still flies today as the colors of the Vermont National Guard.
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| [[File:Guilford Courthouse Flag.png|125px]] ||An odd variation of the early United States flag possibly flew during the Battle of Guilford Court House near Greensboro, North Carolina on March 15, 1781.
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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.
| [[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: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.
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| [[Image:Bonnieblue.png|125px]] ||The ''Bonnie Blue'' flag, unofficial first flag of the Confederacy, 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.
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| [[Image:Starsand bars1.png|125px]] ||Called the ''Stars and Bars'', it was first flown over Fort Sumter on April 13, 1861 at the start of the [[American Civl War]].
| [[Image:Starsand bars1.png|125px]] ||Called the ''Stars and Bars'', it was first flown over Fort Sumter on April 13, 1861 at the start of the [[American Civil War]].
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| [[Image:CSAnational1.png|125px]] ||The First National Flag of the Confederacy. Also called the ''Stars and Bars'', this flag incorporated the 11 stars which symbolized the states that had seceeded from the Union by March, 1861.
| [[Image:CSAnational1.png|125px]] ||The First National Flag of the Confederacy. Also called the ''Stars and Bars'', this flag incorporated the 11 stars which symbolized the states that had seceeded from the Union by March, 1861.