Brandywine Flags

... believed by many authorities to be the first Stars and Stripes used by American land troops. Flown over the military stores at Bennington on August 16, 1777 when General John Stark's militia led Americans to victory over British raiding force.

The first official United States flag, adopted by an Act of Congress on June 14, 1777.

In 1707 Queen Ann adopted a new flag for the United Kingdom - The Union Jack on a field of red. Called the British Red Ensign, Cornwallis surrendered under this flag at Yorktown in 1781.

Colonel John Trumbull's painting, "The Death of Warren," now at the Yale University Art Gallery, shows the red Continental Flag to be the one used by American forces at the Battle of Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775.

... named after Colonel Christopher Gadsden of South Carolina, was flown early in 1776 by Commodore Esek Hopkins of Rhode Island, first Commander-In-Chief of the Continental Fleet. Its inscription represented a warning by the colonists to the British.

... the first (unofficial) national flag of the United States. It was raised in 1776 to celebrate the official status of the newly formed Continental Army by General George Washington, whose camp was then in Cambridge. Also known as Cambridge.

... one of the military colors used by British colonial troops after 1743. The design originated when King James I of England combined the St. George Cross with the Scottish Cross of St. Andrew.

... born of the need for a more practical design to accommodate new states entering the Union. On April 4, 1818, Congress established the number of stripes at seven red and six white, and provided for the addition of one star for each new state.

…the flag carried to the New World by most of the early English explorers. Its use is traced back to 1277 in Britain.