Grand Union Flag - Wikipedia
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.
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According to legend, on January 1, 1776, this flag was first raised at Cambridge, where George Washington took command of the Continental Army. Although this flag was known as the Continental Colors because it represented the entire nation, in one of Washington’s letters he referred to it as the “Great Union Flag” and it is most commonly ...
Continental Army - Wikipedia
The Continental Army was the army of the United Colonies representing the Thirteen Colonies and later the United States during the American Revolutionary War. It was formed on June 14, 1775, by a resolution passed by the Second Continental Congress, meeting in Philadelphia after the war's outbreak.
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Grand Union Flag, American colonial banner first displayed by George Washington on Jan. 1, 1776. It showed the British Union Flag of 1606 in the canton. Its field consisted of seven red and six white alternated stripes representing the 13 colonies.
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2019年11月6日 · The Continental Army flew the flag until 1777. First "official" flag of the 13 colonies known as "the Continental Colors" or "Grand Union Flag." During this time, other flags were flown to show support for Independence.
History of the Grand Union Flag
2022年8月2日 · The flag was used by the U.S. Continental Army forces as both a naval ensign and garrison flag throughout 1776 and early 1777. It is not known for certain when or by whom the design of the Continental Colors was created, but the flag could easily be produced by sewing white stripes onto the British Red Ensigns.
Continental Army (U.S.) - CRW Flags
2015年9月18日 · Colors of the U.S. Continental Army. According to orders of June, 1780, general officers in the Continental Army were to wear blue coats with yellow buttons, lined and faced in buff with yellow buttons, two epaulets and white or …
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2021年1月14日 · The first distinctive American Flag indicating a union of the colonies was known as the Grand Union Flag, the Great Union Flag, the Continental Flag, or the Cambridge Flag. It was flown for the first time, January 1, 1776, by troops of the Continental Army around Boston.
Grand Union Flag | American History
According to some historical traditions, George Washington’s Continental Army raised the Grand Union Flag on January 1, 1776. At the time, the Continental Army was laying siege to Charlestown which was under British army’s control.
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2002年3月3日 · Many historians believe this is the same Flag mentioned by Washington in a 4 January 1776 letter to Col. Joseph Reed. Washington reports that in recognition of the reorganized Continental Army “We raised a Union Flag in compliment to the United Colonies.”
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