3, 1777, according to History.com ... "Stars and Stripes," was based on the "Grand Union" flag — a banner carried by the Continental Army in 1776 that consisted of 13 red and white stripes ...

on the 100th anniversary of the Flag Resolution of 1777. However, it is believed that the first annual recognition of the flag's birthday dates to 1885 when schoolteacher BJ Cigrand organized a ...

The 190 streamers attached to the Army Flag staff denote campaigns fought by the Army throughout our nation’s history. Each streamer (2 3⁄4 inches wide and 4 feet long) is embroidered with the ...

Lord Dunmore's Proclamation By the winter of 1777-78, the Continental Army had dwindled to 18,000 from disease and desertion. This, together with the active recruitment of enslaved blacks by the ...

The women in the sketch were part of a controversial group known as camp followers: wives, widows, runaways and others who marched with the Continental Army. By 1777, around 2,000 women had joined ...

Men in service took pride in what their flag meant, whether it symbolized their particular corps or the larger intentions of war. Designating flags were used to organize army units, whereas other ...

The continental army was struggling to keep fighting that Christmas in 1776. Brave soldier-mariners from Marblehead, Massachusetts, helped save George Washington's army at Trenton.

The Congress acted as a makeshift central government, creating the Continental Army, electing George Washington as its commander and issuing paper currency. It asked each colony to provide ...

"He resigned from the Continental Army in 1777 after Congress promoted five junior officers above him. General George Washington … urged Arnold to reconsider." Arnold's first wife, Margaret ...

About one out of every 10 election workers in November will be a veteran or a family member of a veteran, according to the nonprofit We the Veterans.