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The first recorded sighting of the flag came from Jack Graydon in 1686 and was featured in his book Insignia Navalia by Lt. Graydon, 1686, where the ensign is referred to as "The Red Flag of New England". Other sources such as John Beaumont's The Present State of the Universe from 1701 also portrays an English flag defaced with a tree. Along ...
A flag with a pine tree on it, "a red flag with the cross of St. George in the canton with a green pine tree in the first quarter", was used in New England as early as 1704, and may have flown at Bunker Hill in 1775. It also appeared having a "white field with the motto 'An Appeal to Heaven' above the pine tree". [11]
This is a list of flags of states, territories, former, and other geographic entities (plus a few non-geographic flags) sorted by their combinations of dominant colors. Flags emblazoned with seals , coats of arms , and other multicolored emblems are sorted only by their color fields.
The newer version of the Pine Tree flag, used in Massachusetts, does not include any words, just the green tree on a white field. Controversy with Justice Alito, Jan. 6
The first Pine Tree Flag flown by colonists against the British during the riot was red with a pine tree within a white square in the upper left corner. [10] Of the men charged, Timothy Worthley, Jonathan Worthley and William Dustin fought against the British in the Revolutionary War, as did even Samuel Blodgett.
The flag was also raised as the first national flag of Lebanon on October 2, 1918, following the fall of the Ottoman Empire. [7] An alternate version was also made in 1918 by El Khoury inspired by the French tricolor flag. It featured red and blue triangular on the left of the white cedar flag which was done to honor the French mandate. [8]
The various blue, white, and red striped banners were adopted, somewhat changing the order and position of stripes (vertical and horizontal). The Russian flag was adopted by Peter the Great on the basis of the Dutch flag, during his effort to build a Western-oriented navy.
(white flag, charged with the Olympic rings in blue, yellow, black, green, and red, representing the five continents Europe, Asia, Africa, America, and Oceania) Flag of the People's Republic of China (red flag, charged with yellow canton stars in the top left corner, colors reminiscent of the Flag of the Qing dynasty and the Flag of the ...