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| [[File:Betsy Ross Flag.png|125px]] ||Allegedly created at the request of [[George Washington]] in June, 1776, the ''Betsy Ross'' flag has much legend instead of fact surrounding it; Ross is popularly credited with this creation of the first Stars and Stripes.
| [[File:Betsy Ross Flag.png|125px]] ||Allegedly created at the request of [[George Washington]] in June, 1776, the ''Betsy Ross'' flag has much legend instead of fact surrounding it; Ross is popularly credited with this creation of the first Stars and Stripes.
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| [[File:Serapis Flag.png|125px]] ||[[Benjamin Franklin]] had this flag hurredly-created for Captain [[John Paul Jones]] while in the [[Netherlands]]; apparantly, Jones was going to be arrested and charged with piracy for his depredations against the British on the high seas. His actual colors were lost when his ship ''Bonhomme Richard'' sank after his victory against the much-more powerful frigate HMS ''Serapis'' off Flambourough Head, England in 1779, and was based on a description Franklin gave to the Dutch authorities when asked what the new American flag looked like. [http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/Flags/us-serap.html]
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| [[File:13 star flag.PNG|125px]] ||The original ''Stars and Stripes'', the first official flag of the new United States, and the first American flag recognized and saluted by a foreign power.
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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.