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Join, or Die. a 1754 political cartoon by Benjamin Franklin published in The Pennsylvania Gazette in Philadelphia, addresses the disunity of the Thirteen Colonies during the French and Indian War; several decades later, the cartoon resurfaced as one of the most iconic symbols in support of the American Revolution.
James Montgomery Flagg (June 18, 1877 – May 27, 1960) was an American artist, comics artist, and illustrator. He worked in media ranging from fine art painting to cartooning , but is best remembered for his political posters, particularly his 1917 poster of Uncle Sam created for United States Army recruitment during World War I .
A Union Jack defaced with the Badge of Colonial Seychelles. 1961–1976: Flag of the governor of Seychelles: A Union Jack defaced with the Badge of Colonial Seychelles 1874–1904: Flag of the governor of the Straits Settlements: A Union Jack defaced with the badge of Straits Settlements. 1904–1946: Flag of the governor of the Straits Settlements
The cartoon describes the Siege of Yorktown in 1781, where American and French troops surrounded a British army under Charles Cornwallis, causing him to surrender. The snake symbolizes America and France, as they had previously used the reptile on the Gadsden flag, making it an early emblem of the country. [2] [3]
The flags with the French flag in the canton, which on many occasions were already existing flags without the tricolour, resembled the British colonial flags, which originated as defacements of the British ensigns, which have the British Union Jack in the canton, and a red, white or blue fly.
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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The cartoon image of stolid, stocky, conservative and well-meaning John Bull, dressed like an English country squire, sometimes explicitly contrasted with the conventionalised scrawny, French revolutionary sans-culottes Jacobin, was developed from about 1790 by British satirical artists James Gillray, Thomas Rowlandson and Isaac Cruikshank.