HISTORICAL FLAGS OF THE UNITED STATES

1. The Royal Standard of Spain (1492) 2. The Personal Banner of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain (1492) 3. The Flag of France (1534) 4. The Flag of Sweden (1655) 5. The St. George Cross (1497) 6. The British Union Jack or King’s Color (1620) 7. The Queen Anne Flag, Red Ensign, or Meteor (1707) 8. The Bedford Flag (1737) 9. The Merchant Jack or Privateer Ensign or Son’s of Liberty Banner (1773) 10. The Culpepper Minute Men’s Flag (1775) 11. The Bunker Hill Flag (1775) 12. The Gadsden Flag (1776) 13. The Rhode Island Regiment Flag (1776) 14. The Grand Union or First Navy Ensign or Cambridge Flag (1776) 15. General Washington’s Headquarters Flag (1776) 16. The First Navy Jack (1776 and 2002) 17. The Bennington Flag or Spirit of ’76 (1776) 18. The Easton Flag, Easton Pennsylvania (1776) 19. The Fort Mifflin Flag, Delaware River (1777) 20. The First Official Flag of The United States of America (1777), Francis Hopkinson designer 21. The First Official Flag of The United States of America (1777), Betsy Ross version 22. The Flag of the Continental Navy Ship, Bon Homme Richard (1779) 23. The Gilford Court House Flag (1781) 24. The Philadelphia Light Horse Flag (1781) 25. The Second Flag, The Star Spangled Banner - 15 stars & 15 stripes (1795) 26. The Lewis and Clark Flag – 17 stars & 15 stripes (1804) 27. Don’t Give Up the Ship (1813) 28. The Third Flag – 20 stars & 13 stripes (1818) 29. The Sixth Flag – 24 stars (1822) 30. The Seventh Flag – 25 stars (1836) 31. The Alamo Flag (1835-1836) 32. The Eighth Flag, General Fremont – 26 stars (1837) 33. The Tenth Flag, Mexican War – 28 stars (1846) 34. The Thirteenth Flag, California Gold Rush – 31 stars (1851) 35. The Fifteenth Flag, Civil War, Ft. Sumter – 33 stars (1859 – 1861) 36. The Sixteenth Flag, Civil War, KS admitted to union – 34 stars (1861) 37. The Sixteenth Flag, Civil War, 20th Maine Regiment, Gettysburg – 34 stars (1863) 38. The U.S. Calvary Guidon, Civil War & Indian Wars – 34 stars (1863) 39. The Seventeenth Flag, Civil War, West Virginia admitted to union – 35 stars (1863) 40. Bonnie Blue Flag Miss., Unofficial Confederate (1861), Rep. of TX (1836), W. FL (1810) 41. The First Natl. Flag of the Confederate States of America, The Stars and Bars (1861) 42. The Second Flag of the Confederacy, The Stainless Banner (1863) 43. Confederate Battle Square, Civil War 44. The Final Confederate Flag, The Flag of Surrender (1865) 45. The Eighteenth Flag, Civil War, Nevada admission, Ford’s Theater – 36 stars (1865) 46. The Eighteenth Flag, Civil War, Great Star, President Lincoln’s funeral train – 36 stars (1865) 47. The Twentieth Flag, the move westward and Indian Wars – 38 stars (1877) 48. The Twenty Second Flag, industrialization and reach for empire – 44 stars (1891) 49. The Twenty Third Flag, Spanish American War – 45 stars (1896) 50. The First US Volunteer Calvary “Rough Riders” Sp. Am. War – Colonel Theodore Roosevelt (1898) 51. The Twenty Fifth Flag, WWI, WWII, Korean Wars – 48 stars (1912) 52. The Twenty Sixth Flag, Alaska admitted – 49 stars (1959) 53. The POW-MIA Flag, semi-official post Vietnam 54. The Union Jack of the United States – 50 stars (1959-2001) 55. The Union Jack of the United States, post 9/11, Rattle Snake Banner (1776 & 2002) 56. The Twenty Seventh Flag, Hawaii admitted – 50 stars (1960)