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! Flags!!Detail
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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]]
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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.
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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.
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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.
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| [[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.
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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]].
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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.
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| [[Image:CSAbattleflag.png|125px]] ||The flag of General [[Robert E. Lee]]'s Army of Northern Virginia; called the ''Southern Cross'' and the Confederate Battle Flag. The design became so popular that is was used as the canton of the Confederate national flag.
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| [[Image:CSAnational2.png|125px]] ||The Second National Flag; also known as the ''Stainless Banner'' due to the large white field. It was also referred to as the ''Stonewall Flag'', as its first official use was to cover the casket of Lieutenant General [[Thomas J. Jackson]] in 1863.
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|[[Image:CSAnational3.png|125px]] ||The Third National Flag. The red stripe was added to the fly to correct a major drawback of the previous flag: the appearence of a flag of surrender when it hung limp.
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| [[Image:Conf Navy Jack.png|125px]] ||Official Confederate naval jack for use on all warships from 1863-1865, and patterned after the design of the battle flag. This flag was adopted in the years since as the ''de-facto'' flag of the South itself.
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|-bgcolor=#cccccc
! Flags!!Detail
|- valign="center"
|-
| [[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: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: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: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: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.
|-
| [[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: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: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:CSAbattleflag.png|125px]] ||The flag of General [[Robert E. Lee]]'s Army of Northern Virginia; called the ''Southern Cross'' and the Confederate Battle Flag. The design became so popular that is was used as the canton of the Confederate national flag.
|-
| [[Image:CSAnational2.png|125px]] ||The Second National Flag; also known as the ''Stainless Banner'' due to the large white field. It was also referred to as the ''Stonewall Flag'', as its first official use was to cover the casket of Lieutenant General [[Thomas J. Jackson]] in 1863.
|-
|[[Image:CSAnational3.png|125px]] ||The Third National Flag. The red stripe was added to the fly to correct a major drawback of the previous flag: the appearence of a flag of surrender when it hung limp.
|-
| [[Image:Conf Navy Jack.png|125px]] ||Official Confederate naval jack for use on all warships from 1863-1865, and patterned after the design of the battle flag. This flag was adopted in the years since as the ''de-facto'' flag of the South itself.
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