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Use: National flag : Proportion: 2:3: Adopted: March 4, 1865: Design: A white rectangle, one-and-a-half times as wide as it is tall, a red vertical stripe on the far right of the rectangle, a red quadrilateral in the canton, inside the canton is a blue saltire with white outlining, with thirteen white five-pointed stars of equal size inside the saltire.
See also: Flags of the U.S. states and territories A 2.00 m × 1.70 m oil painting showing historical US flags. This is a list of flags in the United States describing the evolution of the flag of the United States, as well as other flags used within the United States, such as the flags of governmental agencies. There are also separate flags for embassies and ships. National flags Main article ...
Pages in category "Saltire flags" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Flag of Alabama;
The saltire of Alabama's flag most closely resembles the saltire of the flag of Florida, which was derived from the Spanish Cross of Burgundy. [10] Southern Alabama was originally part of Spanish Florida and subsequently West Florida. Alabama adopted its flag design in 1895, five years earlier than Florida did.
The term Southern Cross can also refer to the blue saltire as used in various flags of the Confederate States of America in the American Civil War. [ 1 ] This list is an incomplete list and some of the flags in this list might not have official status.
Some U.S. state flags were ordered to be raised during Donald Trump's swearing-in, while others will remain at half-staff for the late Jimmy Carter. ... The American flag would “for the first ...
We can date Flag Day's importance all the way back to 1777, when the Continental Congress passed a resolution that stated America must have an official flag to represent the nation and its' people ...
A map of North America (without Greenland) with 23 national flags, excluding the flags of the dependencies and other territories. This is a gallery of flags of North American countries, territories and their affiliated international organizations.