flag and has been in use for over years. ===First flag=== At the time of the Declaration of Independence in July 1776, the Continental Congress would not legally adopt flags with "stars, white in a blue field" for another year.
This contradicts the legend of the Betsy Ross flag, which suggests that she sewed the first Stars and Stripes flag by request of the government in the Spring of 1776. On 10 May 1779, a letter from the War Board to George Washington stated that there was still no design established for a national standard, on which to base regimental standards, but also referenced flag requirements given to the board by General von Steuben.
By her family's own admission, Ross ran an upholstery business, and she had never made a flag as of the supposed visit in June 1776.
flag is its 27th; the design of the flag has been modified officially 26 times since 1777.
Nicholas. ===Flag Resolution of 1777=== On June 14, 1777, the Second Continental Congress passed the Flag Resolution which stated: "Resolved, That the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation." Flag Day is now observed on June 14 of each year.
While scholars still argue about this, tradition holds that the new flag was first hoisted in June 1777 by the Continental Army at the Middlebrook encampment. The first official U.S.
flag flown during battle was on August 3, 1777, at Fort Schuyler (Fort Stanwix) during the Siege of Fort Stanwix.
Swartwout of Dutchess County was paid by Congress for his coat for the flag. The 1777 resolution was most probably meant to define a naval ensign.
Experts have dated the earliest known example of this flag to be 1792 in a painting by John Trumbull. Despite the 1777 resolution, the early years of American independence featured many different flags.
Benjamin Franklin and John Adams, in a letter dated October 3, 1778, to Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies, described the American flag as consisting of "13 stripes, alternately red, white, and blue, a small square in the upper angle, next to the flagstaff, is a blue field, with 13 white stars, denoting a new Constellation." John Paul Jones used a variety of 13-star flags on his U.S.
On May 10, 1779, Secretary of the Board of War Richard Peters expressed concern "it is not yet settled what is the Standard of the United States." However, the term "Standard" referred to a national standard for the Army of the United States.
Navy ships including the well-documented 1779 flags of the Serapis and the Alliance.
This contradicts the legend of the Betsy Ross flag, which suggests that she sewed the first Stars and Stripes flag by request of the government in the Spring of 1776. On 10 May 1779, a letter from the War Board to George Washington stated that there was still no design established for a national standard, on which to base regimental standards, but also referenced flag requirements given to the board by General von Steuben.
Hopkinson initially wrote a letter to Congress, via the Continental Board of Admiralty, on May 25, 1780.
Hopkinson's sketches have not been found, but we can make these conclusions because Hopkinson incorporated different stripe arrangements in the Admiralty (naval) Seal that he designed in the Spring of 1780 and the Great Seal of the United States that he proposed at the same time.
flag was brought to the city of Canton (Guǎngzhōu) in China in 1784 by the merchant ship Empress of China, which carried a cargo of ginseng.
flag took its first trip around the world in 1787–90 on board the Columbia.
Experts have dated the earliest known example of this flag to be 1792 in a painting by John Trumbull. Despite the 1777 resolution, the early years of American independence featured many different flags.
She was assisted by Grace Wisher, an African American girl at just 13 years old. ===Later flag acts=== In 1795, the number of stars and stripes was increased from 13 to 15 (to reflect the entry of Vermont and Kentucky as states of the Union).
During the American War of Independence and War of 1812 the army was not even officially sanctioned to carry the United States flag into battle.
The flag is currently on display in the exhibition "The Star-Spangled Banner: The Flag That Inspired the National Anthem" at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of American History in a two-story display chamber that protects the flag while it is on view. On April 4, 1818, a plan was passed by Congress at the suggestion of U.S.
flag around the world in 1831–32.
It was not until 1834 that the artillery was allowed to carry the American flag, the army would be granted to do the same in 1841.
It was not until 1834 that the artillery was allowed to carry the American flag, the army would be granted to do the same in 1841.
However, in 1847, in the middle of the war with Mexico, the flag was limited to camp use and not allowed to be brought into battle. This all changed following the shots at Fort Sumter in 1861.
In a reversal, the 1847 army regulations would be dropped and the flag was allowed to be carried into battle.
The names given were common usage in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.Olsen, Kay Melchisedech, Chinese Immigrants: 1850–1900 (2001), p.
However, in 1847, in the middle of the war with Mexico, the flag was limited to camp use and not allowed to be brought into battle. This all changed following the shots at Fort Sumter in 1861.
The United States is also called nước Mỹ in Vietnamese before the name Měiguó was popular amongst Chinese. Additionally, the seal of Shanghai Municipal Council in Shanghai International Settlement in 1869 included the U.S.
Indeed, nearly a century passed before Ross's grandson, William Canby, first publicly suggested the story in 1870.
The flag attracted the notice of Japanese when an oversized version was carried to Yokohama by the steamer Great Republic as part of a round-the-world journey in 1871. === Civil War and the Flag === Prior to the Civil War, the American flag was rarely seen outside of military forts, government buildings and ships.
Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington at Mount Vernon, calls it an "enduring myth" backed by "no discernible evidence." The story seems to have originated with the 1876 play Washington: A Drama in Five Acts, by the English poet Martin Farquhar Tupper, and was further popularized through repetition in the children's magazine St.
However, the "flower flag" terminology persists in some places today: for example, American ginseng is called flower flag ginseng () in Chinese, and Citibank, which opened a branch in China in 1902, is known as Flower Flag Bank (). Similarly, Vietnamese also uses the borrowed term from Chinese with Sino-Vietnamese reading for the United States, as from ("Flower Flag").
Before that, the admission of Alaska in January 1959 prompted the debut of a short-lived 49-star flag. Prior to the adoption of the 48-star flag in 1912, there was no official arrangement of the stars in the canton, although the U.S.
Throughout the 19th century, there was an abundance of different star patterns, rectangular and circular. On July 4, 2007, the 50-star flag became the version of the flag in the longest use, surpassing the 48-star flag that was used from 1912 to 1959. ==="Flower Flag" arrives in Asia=== The U.S.
Reverence for the flag has at times reached religion-like fervor: in 1919 William Norman Guthrie's book The Religion of Old Glory discussed "the cult of the flag" and formally proposed . Despite a number of attempts to ban the practice, desecration of the flag remains protected as free speech under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Furthermore, the exact colors of the flag were not standardized until 1934. ===Possible future design of the flag=== If a new U.S.
flag. The flag closely resembles the British East India Company flag of the era, and Sir Charles Fawcett argued in 1937 that the company flag inspired the design.
The 48-star flag was in effect for 47 years until the 49-star version became official on July 4, 1959.
The 50-star flag was ordered by then president Eisenhower on August 21, 1959, and was adopted in July 1960.
The most recent change, from 49 stars to 50, occurred in 1960 when the present design was chosen, after Hawaii gained statehood in August 1959.
Before that, the admission of Alaska in January 1959 prompted the debut of a short-lived 49-star flag. Prior to the adoption of the 48-star flag in 1912, there was no official arrangement of the stars in the canton, although the U.S.
Throughout the 19th century, there was an abundance of different star patterns, rectangular and circular. On July 4, 2007, the 50-star flag became the version of the flag in the longest use, surpassing the 48-star flag that was used from 1912 to 1959. ==="Flower Flag" arrives in Asia=== The U.S.
The 50-star flag was ordered by then president Eisenhower on August 21, 1959, and was adopted in July 1960.
The most recent change, from 49 stars to 50, occurred in 1960 when the present design was chosen, after Hawaii gained statehood in August 1959.
Throughout the 19th century, there was an abundance of different star patterns, rectangular and circular. On July 4, 2007, the 50-star flag became the version of the flag in the longest use, surpassing the 48-star flag that was used from 1912 to 1959. ==="Flower Flag" arrives in Asia=== The U.S.
Residents of the District of Columbia (D.C.) and Puerto Rico have each voted for statehood in referendums (most recently in the 2016 statehood referendum in the District of Columbia and the 2020 Puerto Rican status referendum).
Neither proposal has been approved by Congress. In 2019, District of Columbia mayor Muriel Bowser had dozens of 51-star flags installed on Pennsylvania Avenue, the street linking the U.S.
Residents of the District of Columbia (D.C.) and Puerto Rico have each voted for statehood in referendums (most recently in the 2016 statehood referendum in the District of Columbia and the 2020 Puerto Rican status referendum).
On June 26, 2020, the House voted to establish D.C.
It died in the Republican-controlled Senate at the end of the 116th Congress. On January 4, 2021, Delegate Norton reintroduced H.R.
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