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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]

|  [[File:Serapis Flag.png|125px]] ||[[Benjamin Franklin]] had this flag hurriedly-created for Captain [[John Paul Jones]] while in the [[Netherlands]]; apparently, 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.

|  [[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.

|  [[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.

|  [[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 by having the cannon replaced with current military-style rifles.

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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 Lopez 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 Lopez 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.