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05 May 2019 ~ Comments Off on Flags

Flags

The Sons of Liberty organized in Boston Massachusetts to protest the Stamp Act of 1765. The idea quickly spread across the other colonies (via Twitter?) and in 1767 they adopted a flag design of 9 vertical stripes, 5 red and four white to represent the nine protesting colonies. By 1776 all 13 colonies had joined the fight […]

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