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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.
The flag of Great Britain, often referred to as the King's Colour, first Union Flag, [1] [2] Union Jack, and British flag, was used at sea from 1606 and more generally from 1707 to 1801. It was the first flag of the Kingdom of Great Britain. [3] [4] It is the precursor to the Union Jack of 1801.
The terms Union Jack and Union Flag are both used historically for describing the national flag of the United Kingdom.. According to the website of the Parliament of the United Kingdom: [11] [12] "Until the early 17th century England and Scotland were two entirely independent kingdoms (Wales had been annexed into the Kingdom of England under the Laws in Wales Acts 1535 and 1542.).
Acts of Union 1707; American Revolution; American Revolutionary War; Anne, Queen of Great Britain; Antoine Lavoisier; Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen; Bastille Day; Battle of Bennington; Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1797) Battle of Culloden; Battle of Valcour Island; Battle of the Chesapeake; Battle of the Nile; Battles of Saratoga; British ...
A White Ensign with a pre-1801 Union Flag in the canton, defaced with a blue lighthouse in the fly, is the only British flag to still use the pre-1801 Union Flag. [28] This flag is only flown from vessels with the Commissioners aboard and from the Headquarters of the NLB, in Edinburgh. Ensign of Trinity House
The Union Flag also features in the canton of the flags of the Royal Navy, the Royal Air Force, and the British Merchant Navy. These flags are known as ensigns . The earlier flag of Great Britain was established in 1606 by a proclamation of King James VI and I of Scotland and England . [ 3 ]
The monument flies the Grand Union Flag, the first American flag. On New Year's Day in 1776, Washington conducted a flag-raising ceremony to raise the morale of the men of the Continental Army. The standard account features the Grand Union Flag flying, although in 2006, Peter Ansoff advanced a theory that it was actually a British Union Flag ...
The flag's design was first specified in the June 14, 1777, Flag Resolution of the Second Continental Congress, and flew for the first time on September 3, 1777—well after Washington's crossing in 1776. A more historically accurate flag would have been the Grand Union Flag, hoisted by Washington on January 1, 1776, at Somerville ...