THE LITTLE BOOK
OF THE FLAG

BY

EVA MARCH TAPPAN

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY

BOSTON · NEW YORK · CHICAGO · DALLAS
SAN FRANCISCO

The Riverside Press Cambridge

COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY EVA MARCH TAPPAN
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

The Riverside Press
CAMBRIDGE · MASSACHUSETTS
PRINTED IN THE U. S. A.

CONTENTS

I.	The Flags that brought the Colonists		1
	Flags under which the early colonists sailed—TheEnglish "ancient flag"—The "meteor flag,""Union Jack," or "King's Flag"—Endicott cuts the cross from the English flag—The militia object to the cross on the flag—A flaglessfort—Dr. Cotton's decision.
II.	The Pine-Tree Flag and Others		8
	Flags common among the colonists—The New England Alliance—The pine-tree flag and coins—Flags of themilitia—The red coat flag.
III.	Liberty and Liberty Poles		14
	The demand for liberty—Opposition to the Stamp Act—Oliver hanged in effigy—The Liberty Tree inBoston—The liberty pole in New York—The Albany plan—The snake design.
IV.	The Land of Many Flags		20
	The Bedford flag—Flags at the beginning of the Revolution—Sergeant Jasper saves the flag—Therattlesnake on the flag.
V.	When Washington went to Cambridge		27
	The Philadelphia Light Horse Troop—The army at Cambridge—The backwoodsmen—Indians offertheir services—General Putnam unfurls a scarlet flag—The Liberty Tree.
VI.	The "Grand Union Flag"		32[Pg iv]
	The "Grand Union Flag"—Possible sources of the design—First raised in Somerville—Flags on sea andland—Flag hoisted over the Alfred by John Paul Jones—Franklin's letters of marque.
VII.	The First United States Flag		39
	The flag of the United States as decreed by Congress—The Betsy Ross flag—Significance of the Colors—CaptainJones put in command of the Ranger—The "quilting party"—The Drake strikes her colors to the Ranger—The United States flag is saluted bythe French—The flag goes down with the Bon Homme Richard.
VIII.	Flags One would have liked to see		48
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