The Little Book of the Flag

by Eva March Tappan

Great God our King.

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INDEX

• Albany, reached by the Dutch, [2].
• "Albany Plan," [18]-[19].
• Alexandria, [61].
• Alfred, the, the first American man-of-war, [35]-[38].
• Algiers, the Dey of, yields to America, [58].
• America, [3], [18], [25], [34], [46], [52];
  • overpowers the Dey of Algiers, [58].
• "Ancient flag," the, [3].
• Anderson, General, carries the flag from Fort Sumter, raises it again in 1865, [72]-[73];
  • burial of, [74].
• Andrea, Dona, saluted at one of the West Indian Islands, [45].
• Arch Street, home of Betsy Ross, [40], [42].
• Arizona, admitted to the Union, [66];
  • men from, at Santiago, [75].
• Asia, sought by Henry Hudson, [1]-[2].
• Atlantic Ocean, crossed by Henry Hudson, [1.]
• Bainbridge, Captain, carries Algerian ambassador to Constantinople, [57]-[58].
• Baltimore, [50], [61].
• Bedford, the flag of, [20]-[21].
• Beecher, Henry Ward, speech of, at Fort Sumter, [73].
• Bethlehem, [50].
• Bon Homme Richard, sinking of the, [45]-[47].
• Boston, arrival of stamps at, [15]-[16];
• • flag seen in, [34]; [35].
• Boston Harbor, [5];
  • tea dropped into, [30].
• Brest Roads, [44].
• Britain, [34].
• British, besiege Fort Stanwix, [48].
• Broadway, [53].
• Brooklyn Navy Yard, flags for the navy made in the, [67].
• Bunker Hill, flags at battle of, [21]; [28], [29], [30], [32].
• Bunting, not made in America until 1866, [66]-[67].
• Cambridge, Indian volunteers come to, [29]; [34], [39].
• Carleton, Sir Guy, delayed in New York, [53].
• Castle Island, ship made to strike her colors at, [5]-[6].
• Chapultepec, taken by Americans, [70]-[71].
• Charles II, and the New England coinage, [11].
• Charleston, the flag of, [11]-[12];
• • stamped paper in, [15];
  • liberty flag in, [16];
  • flag of, after Bunker Hill, [22];
  • Liberty Tree of, [30];
  • cut down by Sir Henry Clinton, [31]; [72].
• China, the American flag in, [79].
• Christina, becomes queen of Sweden, [2].
• Civil War, the beginning of the, [71].
• Clinton, Sir Henry, cuts down the Liberty Tree in Charleston, [31].
• Columbus, [58].
• Concord, [20].
• Congress, [19];
  • sends a committee to Cambridge, [32];
  • orders building of cruisers, [35];
  • orders a flag, [41]; [42]; [43];
  • celebrates the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, [51];
  • decrees the star-spangled banner, [63]-[64].
  • See also Continental Congress.
• Connecticut, regimental colors of, [22];
  • motto of, [30].
• Constantinople, Algerian ambassador carried to, [58].
• Constitution, frigate, [57].
• Continental Congress, [27];
  • weakness of the statement issued by the, [29];
  • Washington a member of the, [33]; [37];
  • declares the colonies to be independent and decrees a flag, [39]-[40].
• Cook, Captain, to be aided by all American cruisers, [38].
• Copley, paints in the flag, [52].
• Cotton, Dr. John, advises concerning the King's Flag, [6]-[7];
  • Indian chief resembles, [59].
• Cuba, given up to the Cubans, [81]-[82].
• Culpeper Minute Men, [25].
• Daiquiri, landing place of the Rough Riders, [75].
• Declaration of Independence, [32], [40];
• • flag made before the, [42];
  • first anniversary celebrated on the Delaware River, [51].
• Delaware River, Swedes settle on the, [2];
  • pine tree flag on the, [35];
  • stars and stripes on the, [42];
  • celebration on the, [51].
• Digby, Admiral, licenses a Nantucket skipper to go to London, [52].
• Dix, General, [81].
• Driver, Captain William, originates the name "Old Glory," [68].
• Dutch, establish trading posts on the Hudson River, [2];
  • overpowered by the English, [2];
  • opposed by New Englanders, [9]-[10];
  • government of, inquires concerning the American flag, [65].
• Dutch East India Company, Hudson sails in the employ of the, [1]-[2].
• Elliot, Major, wife of, presents silken colors, [24].
• Endicott, John, cuts the cross from the English flag, [4]-[5]; [87].
• England, flag of, brought to Jamestown, [2]-[3]; [6]; [18]; [33];
• • flag of, pulled down in New York, [54]; [66];
  • honors the Stars and Stripes, [84].
• English East India Company, flag of the, [34].
• Essex (county), [9].
• Essex Institute, "Old Glory" sent to the, [69].
• "Father of his Country," [33].
• Fifteen stripes and fifteen stars, the flag of, [56]-[62].
• Fillmore, President, sends letter to Japan, [77].
• First Regiment of the United States Volunteer Cavalry, [74].
• • See Rough Riders.
• Flag anniversaries, [90]-[92].
• "Flag Day," [87].
• Flag etiquette, [85]-[89].
• "Flower flag," the, [79].
• Flamborough Head, [45].
• Fort George, [53].
• Fort McHenry, attacked by the British, [60].
• Fort Moultrie, [23].
• Fort Schuyler.
  • See Fort Stanwix.
• Fort Stanwix, flag made at, [48]-[49].
• Fort Sumter, firing upon, begins the Civil War, [71]-[72];
  • flag raised upon, [73].
• Fourth of July, Declaration of Independence on the, [39]-[40];
  • first anniversary of the, [51];
  • new stars to be added to the flag on the, [64];
  • honored in Sweden, [81].
• France, war with, [57];
  • sells the Louisiana Territory to the United States, [58].
• Franklin, Benjamin, proposes the "Albany Plan," [18]-[19]; [24], [25], [26];
  • sent to Cambridge by Congress, [32]; [34];
  • issues letters of marque, [37].
• Frederick, burial place of Francis Scott Key, [61].
• French, opposed by the New Englanders, [9]-[10];
  • meet the New Englanders at Louisburg, [12]-[13].
• Gadsden, Christopher, speaks of possible independence, [30].
• Gage, General, [21].
• Gansevoort, Colonel Peter, commands Fort Stanwix, [49].
• George III, proclamation of, [54].
• "God Save the King," sung in St. Paul's Cathedral, [84].
• Grand Army of the Republic, [74], [86].
• Grand Council, part of the "Albany Plan," [18]-[19].
• "Grand Union Flag," made in Cambridge, [33];
• • designer not known, [34]; [39].
• Great Britain, second war with, [57], [84].
• Gustavus Adolphus, plans a settlement in America, [2]; [80].
• Hall, Lieutenant, rescues the flag at Fort Sumter, [72].
• Hancock, John, presents a flag to General Putnam, [30].
• Harrison, Benjamin, sent to Cambridge by Congress, [32].
• Hart, Sergeant Peter, fastens the flag up on the ramparts at Fort Sumter, [72];
• • presents it to be raised, [73].
• Harvard College, used by troops, [28].
• Havana, [82].
• Hawthorne, tells the story of Endicott and the flag, [4]-[5];
  • of "The Pine-Tree Shillings," [11].
• Hemisphere, on a flag, [11].
• Henry, Patrick, [25].
• Hessians, [51].
• Holland, Hudson's vessel sailed from, the flag of, [1]; [44].
• Holmes, "Old Ironsides," poem of, [56].
• House of Representatives, hoists the Star-Spangled Banner, [65].
• Hudson, carries the Dutch flag into the Hudson River, [1]-[2].
• Indian, enters embrasure at Louisburg, [13].
• Indiana, [63].
• Indians, Hudson welcomed by the, [1];
• • method of warfare, [8];
  • given flags, [12];
  • volunteer at Cambridge, [29];
  • fought by Washington, [33];
  • besiege Fort Schuyler, [48];
  • raise the American flag, [59].
• Island of Knights, [80].
• James I, changes the flag of England, [3].
• James II, sends a flag to New England, leaves England, [10].
• Jamestown, founded, [2].
• Japan, opened by Perry, [77]-[79];
• • embassy from visits the United States, [78];
  • the friend of the United States, [79].
• Jasper, William, rescues the flag at Fort Moultrie, [23]-[24].
• Jersey City, [65].
• Jones, John Paul, hoists a flag on the Alfred, [35]-[37];
  • forbidden to burn defenseless towns, [37];
  • put in command of the Ranger, [43];
  • receives a flag in Portsmouth and a salute in France, [43]-[45];
  • in command of the Bon Homme Richard, [45]-[47].
• Journal, of Congress, [32].
• Kansas, first raising of the United States flag in, [59].
• Kentucky, admitted as a State, [56].
• Kettle Hill, battle of, [76].
• Key, Francis Scott, writes the "Star-Spangled Banner," [60]-[61].
• King Philip's War, flag used in, [9].
• "King's Flag," [3];
• • displayed at Castle Island, [6]-[7].
• Lafayette visited by Pulaski, welcomed to Baltimore, [49], [50].
• Las Guasimas, [75].
• "Last battle of the Revolution," [53].
• Lexington, [31];
• • battle of, [35]; [39].
• Liberty, the demand for, [14].
• "Liberty Elm," Massachusetts history associated with the, [30].
• "Liberty Hall," [16].
• Liberty Pole, cut down in New York, [31].
• "Liberty Tree," in Boston, [16], [17];
  • of South Carolina, [30];
  • Paine's poem on the, [31].
• Lincoln, President, [72].
• "Lion of the North," [2].
• London, [52];
  • honors the Stars and Stripes, [84].
• Longfellow, poem of, "Hymn of the Moravian Nuns of Bethlehem," [50].
• Louisburg, the New Englanders at, [12]-[13].
• Louisiana, admitted to the Union, [63].
• Louisiana Territory, purchased by the United States, [58].
• Lowell, quotation from, [63].
• Lowell (city), bunting made in, [66].
• Lynch, Thomas, sent to Cambridge by Congress, [32].
• Maryland, [61].
• Massachusetts, troubles concerning the cross in the flag, [4]-[7]; [8], [9];
• • flag of the "Three County Troop" in, [9];
  • use of "pine tree" in, [10], [11], [15];
  • flag of, after Bunker Hill, [22]; [27];
  • motto of, [30];
  • decrees the use of the pine-tree flag, [35]; [66]; [68]; [86].
• Mediterranean Sea, freed from Pirates, [58].
• Memorial Day, [81].
• Mexico, war with, [70].
• Mexico, the City of, captured by Americans, [70]-[71].
• Middlesex (county), [9], [20].
• Monroe, President, signs a bill decreeing the use of the Star-Spangled Banner, [64].
• Moravian Sisters, make banner for Pulaski, [50].
• Morris, Robert, [40].
• Mottoes on flags, [12], [15], [17], [18], [21], [22], [25], [28], [30], [36], [54].
• Moultrie, [71].
• Moultrie, Colonel, defends Fort Moultrie, [23]-[24].
• Nantucket, [52], [53].
• Nashville, [68].
• National Museum, "Star-Spangled Banner" of Francis Scott Key in, [61].
• Netherlands, flag of the, [34].
• New Amsterdam, [2].
• Newbury, flag of the militia in, [8]-[9].
• Newburyport, patrol, of, [15].
• New England, alliance of the folk of, [9]-[10]; [18].
• New Englanders, [10];
• • set off to capture Louisburg, [12].
• "New England Flag," the, [21].
• New Hampshire, [15], [43].
• New Haven, peace rejoicing in, [54].
• New Mexico, admitted to the Union, [66].
• New World, [2], [58].
• New York, founded by the Dutch, [2];
  • flag of, [15];
  • arrival of stamps at, [16];
  • liberty pole in, [17]-[18];
  • hoists flag with beaver device, [22]; [27]; [31];
  • State of, [48];
  • Sir Guy Carleton delayed in, [53]; [64]; [72].
• New York Sun, [82].
• North Pole, discovered by Admiral Peary, [83].
• Ohio, admitted to the Union, [63].
• "Old Glory," origin of the name and story of, [68]-[69];
• • in three wars, [70].
• "Old Ironsides," frigate, poem by Holmes, [57].
• "Old Thirteen," [2].
• Oliver, hanged in effigy in Boston, [15]-[16].
• Oscar, king of Sweden, [81].
• Page family, as color bearers, [20].
• Paine, Thomas, poem of on the "Liberty Tree," [31].
• Pearson, Captain, yields to John Paul Jones, [45].
• Peary, Admiral Robert E., carries the flag to the North Pole, [82]-[83].
• Pennsylvania, [32], [50], [55].
• Pennsylvania Gazette, [19].
• Pennsylvania Journal, [25].
• Perry, Commodore M. C., carries the letter of President Fillmore to Japan, [77]-[79].
• Philadelphia, [18], [37], [39], [40], [55].
• Philadelphia Light Horse Troop, escorts Washington to New York, [27];
• • flag of the, [27]-[28], [33].
• Phœnix, [74].
• Pike, Lieut. Z. M., and the Indians, [59].
• Pilgrims, [34].
• Pine tree, on flag, [10], [11], [21], [35];
  • used on the Delaware River, [35].
• "Pine-Tree Shillings, The," Hawthorne's story of, [11].
• Pope's Creek, birthplace of Washington, [61].
• Portsmouth, banner in, [15];
  • the "quilting party" flag, [43]-[47].
• Poughkeepsie, [49].
• Prospect Hill, [29];
  • flag raised on, [34].
• Pulaski, Count, the banner of, [49]-[50].
• Puritans, troubled by the cross in the flag, [4]-[7].
• Putnam, Major-General Israel, [29];
  • flag presented to, by John Hancock, [30].
• Quaker City, the, [27].
• Ranger, command of, given to Jones, [43];
• • the flag of, and its salute, [43]-[45].
• Rattlesnake, on flag of Charleston, [22];
  • a favorite emblem, [24]-[26]; [35];
  • on flag of the Alfred, [37].
• Reid, Captain, S. C., designs the flag with stars arranged in one star, [65].
• Revere, Paul, [20].
• Revolutionary War, [21].
• Rhode Island, hoists a flag with the anchor device, [22].
• Roman Catholic Church, the cross regarded as the badge of the, [4].
• Rome, [48].
• Ross, Betsy, makes the first flag with stars and stripes, [40]-[42].
• Ross, Mrs. Elizabeth Griscom, [40], [48].
  • See Betsy Ross.
• Ross, Colonel, [40], [42].
• "Rough Riders," [74].
• St. Andrew, the cross of, [3], [18], [33].
• St. George's Cross, united with the cross of St. Andrew, [3];
• • cut out of the flag by Endicott, [4]-[5];
  • in the flag sent by James II to New England, in the pine-tree flag, [10]; [18]; [21]; [32]; [34].
• St. Paul, Cathedral of, [84].
• Salem, cross cut from the flag in, [4]-[5], [8], [68].
• San Juan Hill, the battle of, [76].
• Santiago, attacked by the Rough Riders, [75].
• Savannah, flag hoisted at, [22], [24].
• Scotland, the flag of, [3]; [33].
• Serapis, taken by Jones, [45]-[47].
• Six Nations, [18].
• Somerville, flag raised in, [34].
• Sons of Liberty, [15];
  • put up a liberty pole, [17]-[18];
  • meetings of the, [30].
• South Carolina, [11];
  • treatment of stamped paper in, [14]; [30]; [32].
• Spain, owner of the Louisiana Territory, [59];
  • war with, [74], [81].
• Spaniards, repulsed at Las Guasimas, [75].
• Spanish-American War, [81], [87].
• Stamp Act, [14];
  • repeal of the, [17]; [30].
• Stars and Stripes, first salute to, [45];
  • replace the English flag in New York, [54];
  • at Fort McHenry, [60];
  • at Chapultepec, [71];
  • fired upon at Fort Sumter, [71]-[72];
  • raised again at Fort Sumter, [72]-[73];
  • in Japan, [78];
  • in China, [79];
  • in Sweden, [81];
  • honored in England, [84];
  • behavior towards the, [85]-[87].
• "Star-Spangled Banner, The," written by Francis Scott Key, [60]-[61];
  • played at Fort Sumter, [73];
  • sung in St. Paul's Cathedral, [84].
• Stiles, President, describes the New Haven rejoicing for peace, [54].
• Stockholm, [80].
• Suffolk (county), [9].
• Swartwout, Captain Abram, cloak of, used for flag at Fort Stanwix, [48]-[49].
• Sweden, American flag raised in, [79]-[81].
• Swedes, settle on the Delaware River, are overpowered by the Dutch, [2];
  • opposed by the New Englanders, [9]-[10].
• Tennessee, admitted to the Union, [63]; [68].
• Thames, the royal seal tossed into the, [10].
• "Thirteen," [51], [63].
• Thirteen stripes, first used, [28].
• Thomas, William W., raises American flag in Sweden, [79]-[81].
• Trenton, [51].
• Tripoli, war with, [57].
• Trumbull, battle of Bunker Hill painted by, [21].
• "Union Flag," [18], [22];
• • made at Cambridge, [33];
  • worn by the Alfred, [37].
• Union Jack, [3];
  • given to the Indians, [12]; [18]; [84].
• United Colonies, [34].
• "Unite or die," motto of the "Albany Plan," [18].
• United States, [26], [51], [52];
  • left by British troops, [53]; [54], [55], [58];
  • buys the Louisiana Territory, [58]-[59];
  • flag of, decided upon, [63]-[65];
  • flag manufactured in, [67];
  • opens intercourse with Japan, [78]; [80];
  • flag of, hauled down in Cuba, [81]-[82]; [83], [84], [87].
• Vermont, admitted as a State, [56].
• "Victory Tower," Star-Spangled Banner floats from, [84].
• Virginia, [2], [3], [25], [33], [61].
• Washington, [21];
• • goes to Boston, [27]-[29]; [32];
  • coat-of-arms of, [33]; [34]; [40];
  • visits Betsy Ross, [41];
  • significance of the flag expressed by, [43]; [61];
  • monument reared to in Baltimore, birthplace of marked, [61]-[62]; [81].
• Watson, Elkanah, flag painted in portrait of, by Copley, [52].
• Wendover, Peter H., induces Congress to decree the Star-Spangled Banner, [64].
• Westminster Palace, [84].
• Westmoreland County, [61].
• West Point, burial place of General Anderson, [74].
• Wood, General Leonard, [75];
  • delivers Cuba to the Cubans, [82].
• Yale, [54].

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Transcriber's Note:

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• Footnote moved to end of article on [Pg 114].
• Moved frontispiece illustrations to [Pg 1].
• Otherwise, archaic and inconsistent spelling and hyphenation retained.
• [Pg 16] Corrected spelling of word "processsion" to "procession" located in the phrase "and marched in a long procession".
• [Pg 43] "whereever" and [Pg 107] "wherever" retained as printed.
• [Pg 90] Replaced semi-colon with a colon after "1783" located in "February 3, 1783".
• [Pg 92] Removed extraneous comma after "1787" located in "September 30, 1787,—August 10, 1790"
• [Pg 119] Replaced comma with a semi-colon after "30" located in the phrase "Liberty Tree of, 30".
• [Pg 119] Replaced comma with a semi-colon after "19" located in the phrase "Congress, 19".
• [Pg 120] Added period after "39" located in "designer not known, 34; 39".
• [Pg 121] Replaced period with a comma after "Jones" located in phrase "Pearson, Captain, yields to John Paul Jones".
• [Pg 122] Replaced period with a comma after "51" located in phrase ""Thirteen," 51".