Our Flag

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Excerpt from Our Flag: Its History and Changes From 1607 to 1910Whose one hundred and thirty - third birthday we celebrated this June 14, 1910, was, like everything in nature or history, a growth, and to trace that growth takes us back to the National ¿ag of the Mother Country.One naturally asks, What ¿ag ¿oated over the early settlements of our country? What over its battle fields previous to that june day in 1777, when by an act of Congress it was resolved that the ¿ag of the nation be thirteen, stripes, alternate red and white, and thirteen stars, white on a blue field?Answering our question in order of time, we take first the earliest settlements of the country.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.