First Navy Flag = Liberty Tree Flag, or"Appeal to Heaven" Flag, orWashington Cruisers Flag: July 2008

Friday, July 04, 2008

First Navy Flag "pattern" and "DNA" bits of History supporting replica design or "Re-Creation"

Liberty Tree Flag in 4th of July Parade in Washington, DC & many others

In 2008 Independence Day Parade is the first time the First Navy Flag, Liberty Tree Flag (re-created) flew as its bearer marched in the parade. A few weeks later the Washington Cruiser Flag flew in front of the Statue of Washington in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda...

It flew again in the Labor Day Parade in Buena Vista, Virginia, the Governor Jefferson Thanksgiving Parade in Charlottesville (the Saturday before Thanksgiving), the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City, and later at the Federal Building on Wall Street.

Later that year after Christmas, the flag traveled to the Birthplace of the American Navy to Marblehead, Massachusett where it "flew" in front of the original "Spirit of '76" painting.

The Washington Cruisers "Appeal to Heaven" Flag also flew on the pier in front of the USS Constitution, in front of the Massachusetts Capitol on Beacon Hill in Boston, and in Trinity Church, Newport, Rhode Island where General Washington attended prayer services when in Newport, a few blocks from Washington Square.

"Captain" AND Commander - in - Chief George Washington

The orders of the Continental Congress to George Washington, on page 5, are quoted:
“to command all the continental forces raised, or to be raised, for the defense of American liberty.”

“If the British could not be driven out of Boston, perhaps they could be starved out, which meant stopping their flow of supplies. But Washington had a more immediate problem – an urgent need to equip a threadbare army…” writes author Chester Hearn, on page 7.

“What Washington needed was a navy, but there was none, and the Continental Congress doubted if one would be needed.” on page 3 are some well worded phrases.

Later on the orders continue, “all particulars cannot be foreseen, nor positive instructions for such emergencies so beforehand given…many things must be left to your prudent and discreet management, as occurrences may arise.”

“Washington wanted a few fast vessels… And he wanted his schooners mobilized without delay.

As Congress labored in chambers, debating the practicality of creating and financing a navy, the general decided the matter for them.

He pressed his schooners to sea in the fall of 1775, and prizes began to flow.”

Washington wrote reflectively, “A fortunate capture of an ordnance ship would give new life to the camp, and an immediate turn to the issue of this campaign.” page 7 from the book
"George Washington’s Schooners"
published by The United States Naval Institute Press in 1995
written by Chester G. Hearn (LoC#E271.H43 1995).

Flag Expert Dr. Whitney Smith says:

In the definitive article debunking the "Fake Snake" flag written by president Peter Ansoff in the RAVEN, the journal of NAVA (association of flag experts), scholar Ansoff writes on Page 20:
Dr. Whitney Smith, founder and director of the Flag Research Center, has said of Admiral Preble’s work:
“…Original research is time-consuming and demanding and it’s easy to assume
that published sources are correct and can be trusted.

Those who have written books and articles or have created web sites about American flags have for the most part relied on work done by Preble.

As a result there is a constant repetition of misinformation that gives certain designs the impression of accuracy.”

And note: Admiral Preble TRIED to correct an error from 1872 to 1880, by removing his text about the "Fake Snake" Navy Flag, but due to expense, the book publisher used the old color plate and thereby perpetuated the myth of the "Don't Tread on Me" "Fake Snake" Flag.

"Man the Ship" of the Washington Navy, or Join the Army! Help US Fly the First Navy Flag!

"Tall and Tough as a Tree!"

My
boy, Bill !
he'll be tall
and tough as a tree,
will Bill !
Like a tree he'll grow
with his head held high
and his feet planted firm
on the ground.
And you won't see
nobody dare to try to boss him
or toss him around !
No pot-bellied,
baggy-eyed
bully'll
toss him
around !

-- Broadway Show song
lyrics "dedicated" to "Bill",
J. William Middendorf
Secretary of the Navy,
during the Bicentennial,
Marine Corps Marathon
Hall of Fame a.d. 2000

Friday, July 04, 2008

First Navy Flag "pattern" and "DNA" bits of History supporting replica design or "Re-Creation"

Liberty Tree Flag in 4th of July Parade in Washington, DC & many others

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True Tree v. Fake Snake

"The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, ...

"Captain" AND Commander - in - Chief George Washington

Flag Expert Dr. Whitney Smith says:

Washington Liberty Tree First Navy Flag

father of America's Navy

Crush the "Fake Snake"

"Man the Ship" of the Washington Navy, or Join the Army! Help US Fly the First Navy Flag!

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