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The Grand Union Flag (also the Continental Colors, the Congress Flag, the Cambridge Flag, and the First Navy Ensign) is considered to be the first national flag of the United States. This flag consisted of 13 red and white stripes with the British Union Flag of the time (prior to the inclusion of St. Patrick's cross of Ireland) in the canton.
In the first year of the American War for Independence, the Continental Congress authorized the creation of a navy. A new flag was required representing the Congress and fledgling nation, and distinguishing from the Red Ensign flying from British vessels.
Plaque dates flag to January 2, 1776
historic American flags, always flown at San Francisco's Civic Center Plaza
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Indonesian flag hoisting at Jakarta's Art Gallery. I'm waiting for the winds to blow off, and this is what i can get.
Coombe Hill in the Chiltern Hills provides the backdrop to Ellesborough Church's tower. Open a number of Sundays the tower provides wide ranging views of the Chilterns and the Vale of Aylesbury. The Coombe Hill Monument to the Second Boer War Memorial is just visible on the skyline.
The national flag of Chile, consists of two unequal horizontal bands of white and red and a blue square the same height as the white band in the canton, which bears a white five-pointed star in the center. It was adopted on 18 October 1817. The Chilean flag is also known in Spanish as La Estrella Solitaria (The Lone Star).
One of the participating nations at the International Mosaiculture, Montréal Botanical Garden.
"The national flag of Armenia, the Armenian Tricolour or Yeraguyn (known in Armenian: as Եռագույն, Yeřaguyn), consists of three horizontal bands of equal width, red on the top, blue in the middle, and orange (also described as "colour of apricot") on the bottom. The Armenian Supreme Soviet adopted the current flag on 24 August 1990. On 15 June 2006, the Law on the National Flag of Armenia, governing its usage, was passed by the National Assembly of Armenia.
Throughout history, there have been many variations of the Armenian flag. In ancient times, Armenian dynasties were represented by different symbolic animals displayed on their flags. In the twentieth century, various Soviet flags represented the Armenian nation.
The meanings of the colors have been interpreted in many different ways. For example, red has stood for the blood of the 1.5 million Armenians, blue for the Armenian pure sky, and orange represents the country's courage." (from Wikipedia)
Yerevan, Armenia.
In the presence of a huge crowd, independence was proclaimed on June 12, 1898 between four and five in the afternoon in Cavite in this balcony of the ancestral home of General Emilio Aguinaldo some 30 kilometers South of Manila . The event saw the unfurling of the National Flag of the Philippines, made in Hong Kong by Marcela Agoncillo, Lorenza Agoncillo, and Delfina Herboza, and the performance of the Marcha Filipina Magdalo, as the Nation's National Anthem, now known as Lupang Hinirang, which was composed by Julián Felipe and played by the San Francisco de Malabon marching band.
Bandeiras do ponto de onibus de Blumenau, perto da Prefeitura.
Flags of the Blumenau bus stop, near the City Hall.
When the Governor-General is not in residence at Rideau Hall, the Canadian Flag is flown atop the building.
When Her Excellency is in house, the Governor General's flag flies atop the building.
Canada flag, Rideau Hall, Ottawa, Canada
In June 2017, the largest rainbow flag in North America was hoisted above the Avenue Building in downtown Saskatoon. It flew during Saskatoon's annual pride festival and for several weeks afterward.
Project 52, week 9, 4/5. Triangle.
St. Andrew's cross provides convenient blue triangles!
And my sweetie provides convenient UK heraldry!
Montréal, QC.
CA NA DA! CA NA DA!
That's the USA USA USA version of Canada...
An apartment with Canadian flags left over from Canada Day.
Three historic (?) flags fly from homes on Pinckney Street in Annapolis.
DON'T GIVE UP THE SHIP
The phrase "Don't give up the ship," uttered by Captain James Lawrence after being mortally wounded by enemy fire aboard the gunboat Chesapeake on June 1, 1813, became the battle cry of naval commander Oliver Hazard Perry who later used a blue battle flag emblazoned with the words.
JOHN SHAW FLAG
To prepare for the period when the United States Congress would meet in the Maryland State House, from November 26, 1783 to June 3, 1784, the Governor of Maryland commissioned local cabinetmaker John Shaw to create a U.S. flag. The flag was slightly different from other designs of the time, with the blue field extending over the entire height of the hoist. Shaw created two versions of the flag: one which started with a red stripe and another that started with a white stripe. One of the flags flew on the Maryland State House for nine months from November 1783 to August 1784 while Annapolis was used as the National Capital, and the United States Congress met there. The other flew over the governor's house.
CALVERT ARMS / KING'S COLORS
Often mistakenly called the "Maryland Colonial" flag, there is no historic or documentary proof that this blend of the black and gold diamonds from the Calvert family colors (The Calverts were the Lords Baltimore, lords proprietors of the Royal Colony of Maryland), with the the King's Colors of 1606 as the canton, was ever used during the colonial period. Rather it was first ordered by the governor of Maryland in 1976 for the bi-centennial as the design he liked with no historical proof that it was ever flown in Maryland. The only documentation or mention of a Maryland flag during the revolutionary period and earlier almost always refers solely to the Black and Gold Calvert arms.
An image of the state flag and the text of the state toast: "Here's to the Land of
the Long Leaf Pine: The Summer Land, where the sun doth shine: Where the weak grow
strong, and the strong grow great- Here's to "Down Home," the Old North State!"
Digital Collection:
North Carolina Postcards
Publisher:
North Carolina Patriotic Society, Raleigh, N.C.
Date:
1909
Location:
North Carolina
Collection in Repository
North Carolina Postcard Collection (P052), collection guide available online at www.lib.unc.edu/ncc/pcoll/52postc.html
The American flag is sometimes called the Stars and Stripes, Old Glory, or The Red White and Blue. Whatever the nickname, it is one of the most recognized symbols in the world.
The original flag, adapted by the Continental Congress in 1777, had thirteen stripes, 7 red and 6 white, and a "New Constellation" of 13 stars in a field of blue. Both the stars and the stripes represented the 13 original colonies which declared their independence from Great Britain on July 4, 1776, and established themselves as the United States of America. Over the years the 13 red and white stripes have remained constant, but as new states have been added to the Union another star was placed on the flag for each of them, until today there are 50 stars.
I am old enough to remember when the 48th and 49th states, Alaska and Hawaii, were added to the Union. I was in elementary school then, and the teachers made a big production out of introducing the new flags, first going from 48 to 49 stars, and then again from 49 to 50.