History-First Navy Jack TB
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shellbadger
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Released:
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Wednesday, July 28, 2010
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Origin:
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Texas, United States
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The First Navy Jack is the current U.S. jack authorized by the United States Navy. The design is traditionally regarded as that of first U.S. naval jack flown in the earliest years of the republic, though little if any historical documentation supports this lore. In late 1775, as the first ships of the Continental Navy readied in the Delaware River, Commodore Esek Hopkins issued, in a set of fleet signals, an instruction directing his vessels to fly a "striped" jack and ensign.
The exact design of these flags is unknown. The ensign was likely to have been the Grand Union Flag, and the jack a simplified version of the ensign: a field of 13 horizontal red and white stripes. However, the jack has traditionally been depicted as consisting of thirteen red and white stripes charged with an uncoiled rattlesnake and the motto "Dont Tread on Me"; this tradition dates at least back to 1880, when this design appeared in a color plate in Admiral George Henry Preble's influential History of the Flag of the United States. Recent scholarship, however, has demonstrated that this inferred design never actually existed but "was a 19th-century mistake based on an erroneous 1776 engraving".
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Piemonte, Italy
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Piemonte, Italy
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Trentino–Alto Adige, Italy
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Today we discovered and grabbed it from "Pra da ri" in Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy. We take it with us in our hollidays...
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...saw you in alto adige...have a nice journey...
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Was nice meeting you in the Dolomites, Italy. Have a save journey!
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m+jem placed it in Cogra View
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m+jem retrieved it from Um passeio por Monchique
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Faro, Portugal
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