High Point Regional High School - Obelisk Yearbook (Sussex, NJ)

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LIBERTY TREE 1 ANAPPEAL TO GOD l I CONTINENTAL TLAG LIBERTY TREE FLAG - 1776 FIRST NAVY STARS AND STTIIPES CARRIED IN 1775-1777. SHWOING PINE TREE, SYMBOL or THE PINETREE COMES FROM COINS OF THE IN ARSENCE or SPECIFIC ARRANGEMENT OF STARS BV CDNGRESS, IUNE MASSACHUSETTS BAY GDLDNT, IN PLACE OF THE CROSSES OF ST, GEORGE COLONY OF MASSACHUSETTS, 1652. 14, 1777. IT WAS CUSTDMARY FOR NAVY T0 PLACE THE STARS RN EDRM AND ST. ANDREW. or CROSSES or ST. GEORGE AND ST ANDREW. if 5 t Tk Ak if t Ik E ir t Tk -k i' Tk FLAG or THE THIRD IAARTLAIID - 17711 IDHII PAUL IONES -'STARRII FLAG FLAG or THE PIAII or 1812 C1812-18141 CARRIED AT THE BATTLE or cDwPENS IANUARY, 1778 AND USED AS RESCUED ERDM THE SEA av IAMES BAYARD STAFFORD DURING SHOWING EIETEEN STARS AND EITIEEN BARS AS CHANGED UPON COLORS or AMERICAN LAND FORCES UNTIL MEXICAN WAR, BATTLE BETWEEN BON HDMME RICHARD AND SERAPIS, ADMISSION or VERMONT. A '... l A.. n IT X xxx Q-,LG - FREMONT, THE PATHEINDETCS TLIIG - Mrs FLAG or THE TAEAICAN IIIAR - 1s4s COMMODORE PERRv's FLAG - 1854 EMBLEM THAT a1AzED THE TRAIL FOR THE CDVLRED WAGON NOT ACTUALLT USED AS FEGIMENTAL COLORS sv TRDDPS BUT AS FLAG THE FLAG THAT OPENED IAPAN T0 WESTERN CIVILIZATION. IN THE ROARING ADS. THE EARLY ENSIGN OF THE PLAINS. OF CONQUEST AND DCCUPATIDN K . A F A A t A L A ' A i L , , A . s t P A i A 1 A 5 A 4 A A A A A A A ' i A . A A A A A 1 A A CUNFEDEWE BITHE IND NIV' FUIG FLAG or THE SPANISH AMERICAN INIIR - 11793 USED FROM MAY 1, 1863 T0 END or WAR, 1355. THE BATTLE FLAG wAS THE EMBLEM OF LIBERTY THAT BROUGHT FREEDOM TO CUBA Of F1'eec10m Rf -R 94 94 94 R

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t NI - 0 11,0 as S sfo QS . ! I Us I- 9 CULPEPE R MINUTE Q if on DEATH '-.ah ff A .- JQj3T I 'A E,'f,u'. Slain DONT TREAD ON ME BENIAFAIN FRANKLIN FLAG CULPEPER FLAG - 1775 ALSO CALLED SERAPIS FLAG. GENERALLY ACCEPTED AS ORIGINATED BY ONE OF THE EARLY RATTLESNAKE FLAGS CARRIED BY THE MINUTE MEN. BENIAMIN FRANKLIN AT COURT OF LOUIS XVI. BENNINGTDII FLAG - 1777 FIRST STARS AND STRIPES FLAG OF VICTORY OF THE GREEN MOUNTAIN BOYS. UNITED EMBLEM OF INDEPENDENCE SAID TO HAVE BEEN ORIGINATED BY GEORGE WASHINGTON FOLLOWING ACT OF CONGRESS OF JUNE 14. 1777. THE FLAG OF 1818 OLD GLORY SHOWING RETURN TO THIRTEEN STRIPES AND ADDITIONAL STARS IN NAME GIVEN BY CAPTAIN WILLIAM DRIVER, COMMANDING THE BRIG CANTON, CHARLES DAGGETT IN 1831. FIRST CONFEDERATE FLAG FLAG OF THE CIVIL WAR 1861-1855 AND BARS USED FROM MARCH 1861 T0 MAY 1863, THE STARS AND STRIPES WITH THIRTY SIX STARS IN THE UNION. CARRIED BY THE NORTHERN ARMIES DURING LATER YEARS OF THE CIVIL WAR. merican Banners

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