4.03. Connecticut Flag. — The activities of 

 [775 and 1776 emphasized the need of colors 

 .to distinguish the various troops. Soon after 

 the battle of Bunker Hill the States began to 

 make colors for themselves. Connecticut, 

 with this flag, was one of the first. Her 

 motto, "Qui transtulit sustinet," of which a 

 free translation is, "God, who transported us 

 hither, will sustain us," was put upon one side 

 of several flags of the time, with "An Appeal 

 to Heaven," the Massachusetts motto, upoil 

 the other. This shows almost the identical 

 form of the permanent Connecticut flag (305). 



404. Merchant and Privateer Ensign. — 

 Those dashing privateers, whose exploits made 

 such entertaining reading in the history books 

 of our childhood da) ? s, flew this ensign of thir- 

 teen stripes. Many references and prints of' 

 'striped flaggs" in contemporary British litera- 

 ture prove its prevalence. The color of the 

 stripes varied according to the fancy of the 

 commanding officer. Merchant vessels nearly 

 always displayed this flag. 



405. (See '398.) 



406. Fort Moultrie. — This flag flew from 

 the southeast bastion of Fort Moultrie (then 

 called Fort Sullivan), in Charleston Harbor, 

 during the famous Revolutionary battle of 

 June 28, 1776. Early in the attack the sky- 

 colored emblem fell outside the parapet. Ser- 

 geant William Jasper, crying out, "Don't let us 

 fight without a flag," vaulted over the wall 

 under a rain of bullets, secured the flag, fixed 

 it to a staff, and, triumphantly planting it firrn- 

 ly in place, leaped down within the parapet to 

 safety. Three ringing cheers greeted his re- 

 turn. After an intense artillery attack lasting 

 ten hours, the British forces were compelled to 

 withdraw, and the next day the entire fleet left 

 Charleston Harbor. The name of the fort was 

 changed to Moultrie in honor of the gallant 

 defender. This victory left the Southern 

 States secure from invasion for more than 

 two years. This flag is identical with Colonel 

 Moultrie's earlier flag (3S9) first raised in 

 September, 1775, with the addition of the word 

 'Liberty" in white letters. 



407. Pulaski. — Brave and gallant Count 

 Pulaski, who gave his life for our cause in 

 T779, fought beneath this banner. A Polish 

 count volunteering as a private, distinguished 

 by his coolness and courage at the battle of 

 Brandywine, — he was made Chief of Dra- 

 goons, with the rank of Brigadier-General. 

 The Moravian Sisters, of Bethlehem, Penn- 

 sylvania, embroidered this flag for him. One 

 side bears the words "Unitas Virtus Forcior" 

 I which last word, by the way, should be for- 

 Hor), "Union makes valor stronger," encir- 

 cling the letters U. S. The other side bears 

 the motto, "Non Alius Regit," "No other gov- 

 erns," with the all-seeing eye in the center 

 triangle. Pulaski raised his own independent 

 corps of infantry and light cavalry, and later 

 commanded the French and American forces 

 at the siege of Savannah, where he was mor- 

 tally wounded. Thus fell, at the early age of 

 31, one of the many heroic foreign brothers 

 who fought with us for liberty. 



408. 409. New Hampshire Regiment. — 

 These two New Hampshire flags belonged to 

 the Second Regiment of the State. They were 



taken at Fort Anne by the British Ninth Regi- 

 ment of Foot, commanded by Lieutenant Colo- 

 nel Hill, a few weeks before the decisive battle 

 of Saratoga. After the surrender of Bur- 

 goyne, Colonel Hill carried them to England, 

 where they were treasured by his descendants, 

 finally falling into the hands of Col. George 

 W. Rogers, of Wykeham, Sussex. From him 

 they were purchased in 1912 by Mr. Edward 

 Tuck, and presented to the New Hampshire 

 Historical Society. They are of the same size, 

 approximately five by five and one-half feet. 



The buff flag (408) with a golden disk in 

 the center bears the motto, "We are one.'' 

 From the disk radiate thirteen rays and thir- 

 teen thin lines, each line touching a golden 

 ring in the outer circle, with each ring bearing 

 the name of one of the thirteen States. In 

 the upper left corner are eight red and pale 

 blue triangles which form two crosses. 



The blue silk flag with the gold fringe (409 V 

 bears the letters N. H., with "2nd Regt." below 

 them on the small red shield in the center. 

 The motto on the scroll is significant, "The 

 glory, not the prey." The two crosses conn 

 bined in the upper corner are of red and gold' 



These two New Hampshire flags are prob 

 ably the only ones now in existence which 

 were captured during the Revolutionary War 



410. First Pennsylvania RtflEs. — "A deep 

 green ground, the device a tiger, partly en- 

 closed by toils, attempting the pass, defended 

 by a hunter with a spear (in white) on a 

 crimson field" — thus reads the description of 

 the standard of the First Pennsylvania Rifles 

 in the words of Lieutenant Colonel Hand, 

 written March 8, I/76. During the war this 

 regiment served in every one of the thirteen 

 colonies, and this banner waved at many a; 

 famous battle — at Trenton, Princeton, Brandy- 

 wine, Monmouth, and Yorktown, to mention 1 

 only a few. 



411. Third Maryland. — The existence of 

 this national flag, known to have been used as 

 a regimental flag in the Revolution, sheds a bit 

 of light on the darkness surrounding the ex- 

 tent to which the stars and stripes were us«d 

 at the time. It is certain that this identical 

 flag was carried by the Third Maryland Regi- 

 ment at the battle of Cowpens, in January, 

 1778. William Bachelor was the color-bearer. 

 It is made of thin cotton, and is remarkably 

 well preserved. It is a little over five feet 

 long, and almost a yard wide, and is now in 

 the flag room of the capitol at Annapolis. It 

 is the only instance of the use of the "Stars 

 and Stripes" as a color (;'. e., by land troops), 

 national or regimental, during the Revolution- 

 ary War. that of 1812, and the Mexican War 

 (See history of Stars and Stripes printed else 

 where in this number.) 



412. Eutaw Standard. — This square of 

 brilliant crimson formed the battle flag of Col 

 William Washington's cavalry troop, and led 

 the way to victory at Cowpens and at the final 

 battle of the Revolution, Eutaw Springs, in 

 1781 — two decisive battles of the war in the 

 South. Tradition tells a quaint story of its 

 origin. It seems that Colonel Washington, on 

 a hurried visit to his fiancee, Miss Jane Elliot, 

 of South Carolina, mentioned that he had no 

 flag. With quick flashes of her scissors, she 



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