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The Continental Union Flag (often referred to as the first American flag, Cambridge Flag, and Grand Union Flag) was the flag of the United Colonies from 1775 to 1776, and the de facto flag of the United States until 1777, when the 13 star flag was adopted by the Continental Congress.
Like many Revolutionary War-era flags, the Bennington features 13 stars and 13 stripes, symbolic of the 13 North American colonies that were in a state of rebellion against Great Britain. The Bennington version is easily identified by a large '76' in the canton, recalling the year 1776, when the Declaration of Independence was signed.
The Betsy Ross flag is an early design for the flag of the United States, which is conformant to the Flag Act of 1777 and has red stripes outermost and stars arranged in a circle. These details elaborate on the 1777 act, passed early in the American Revolutionary War , which specified 13 alternating red and white horizontal stripes and 13 white ...
Flag of the United Colonies (1775–1777) Anthem: ... The three forms of colonial government in 1776 were provincial (royal colony), proprietary, and charter.
The Annual Register (1776) says the Americans, so great was their rage and indignation, burnt the speech and "charged their colors from a plain red ground, which they had hitherto used, to a flag with thirteen stripes, as a symbol of the number and union of the colonies".
A Union Jack defaced with the Badge of Colonial Seychelles. 1961–1976: Flag of the governor of Seychelles: A Union Jack defaced with the Badge of Colonial Seychelles 1874–1904: Flag of the governor of the Straits Settlements: A Union Jack defaced with the badge of Straits Settlements. 1904–1946: Flag of the governor of the Straits Settlements
On May 4, 1776, Rhode Island became the first of the 13 colonies to renounce its allegiance to the British Crown, [17] and it was the fourth to ratify the Articles of Confederation among the newly sovereign states on February 9, 1778. [18]
The remaining one-eighth share of the province was retained by members of the Carteret family until 1776, part of the Province of North Carolina known as the Granville District. [7] In 1755 Benjamin Franklin, the Postmaster-General for the American colonies, appointed James Davis as the first postmaster of North Carolina colony at New Bern. [8]