AWI First Continental Flag (1 Viewer)

[tsukaiban]

Reading and searching information regarding the Continental Flag even computer generated 3D version that shows that it was flown at Bunker Hill. My focus of attention is at Lexington Green, was there any colors flown on the side of the Minutemen and Continentals before the first shot? If Bunker Hill was the only place that the flag was flown, what happen to this flag after the redcoats decimated the Continentals at this site?

Does the First Continental Flag ever been use in other campaigns in the American Revolution?

 

[Martin Tabony]

Reading and searching information regarding the Continental Flag even computer generated 3D version that shows that it was flown at Bunker Hill. My focus of attention is at Lexington Green, was there any colors flown on the side of the Minutemen and Continentals before the first shot? If Bunker Hill was the only place that the flag was flown, what happen to this flag after the redcoats decimated the Continentals at this site?

Does the First Continental Flag ever been use in other campaigns in the American Revolution?

Iteresting that the first flag had the union in the upper left canton. http://mrnussbaum.com/amrevolution/revflags/

 

[theBaron]

Iteresting that the first flag had the union in the upper left canton. http://mrnussbaum.com/amrevolution/revflags/

That was a custom reaching back to the French and Indian War, in which we took part as loyal Britons. Colonial units followed similar customs and even regulations as applied to militias in the mother country, and even to the Army, when possible. They aspired to be as British as those who stayed behind. And even as our resistance to the efforts of Parliament and the ministry to expand and enforce political control stiffened, many of those who resisted saw themselves as exercising and defending their ancient British liberties. The symbolism lasted until we declared our independence, and by that time, the new image of a new constellation in the heavens of nations, as it was called, began to take hold, and the union was replaced with 13 stars.

If you have access to John Mollo's "Uniforms of the American Revolution", you can see some other examples of regimental flags that still carried the Union in the upper left canton.

Prost!
Brad

 

[theBaron]

Reading and searching information regarding the Continental Flag even computer generated 3D version that shows that it was flown at Bunker Hill. My focus of attention is at Lexington Green, was there any colors flown on the side of the Minutemen and Continentals before the first shot? If Bunker Hill was the only place that the flag was flown, what happen to this flag after the redcoats decimated the Continentals at this site?

Does the First Continental Flag ever been use in other campaigns in the American Revolution?

The formal regulations used in the Continental Army followed the British and European custom of carrying two flags, one for the sovereign power--in our case, Congress--and one for the regiment. There was some variation regarding the number of regimental flags carried, whether one per company, as the Prussians did, for example, or one per "grand division" or batallion, but generally, you'd have the Continental flag and a regimental, for units drawn up in formal lines.

I'm drawing my memory of Mollo's chapter on flags in his "Uniforms of the American Revolution".

I hope that helps answer your question. Prost!
Brad

 

[Martin Tabony]

That was a custom reaching back to the French and Indian War, in which we took part as loyal Britons. Colonial units followed similar customs and even regulations as applied to militias in the mother country, and even to the Army, when possible. They aspired to be as British as those who stayed behind. And even as our resistance to the efforts of Parliament and the ministry to expand and enforce political control stiffened, many of those who resisted saw themselves as exercising and defending their ancient British liberties. The symbolism lasted until we declared our independence, and by that time, the new image of a new constellation in the heavens of nations, as it was called, began to take hold, and the union was replaced with 13 stars.

If you have access to John Mollo's "Uniforms of the American Revolution", you can see some other examples of regimental flags that still carried the Union in the upper left canton.

Prost!
Brad

Families do fall out sometimes

Martin

 

[theBaron]

Families do fall out sometimes

Martin

There's still a beer here for you, if you ever make it over, Cousin! It's very pleasant in the beer garden this time of year, too.

Prost!
Brad