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Made in USA
Washington's Cruiser Flag |
Col. Joseph Reed, in a
letter dated October 20,1775 from Cambridge, Massachusetts, to
Colonels Glover and Moylan, said, "Please to fix some particular color
for a flag, and a signal, by which our vessels may know one another.
What do you think of a flag of white ground, a tree in the middle, the
motto --'Appeal to Heaven'? This is the flag of our floating
batteries." |
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The six schooners first
commissioned by Washington in the same month to cruise in
Massachusetts Bay and the first vessels commissioned soon afterwards
by the Continental Congress, sailed under the same device --a green
pine tree in the center of a white field --with the motto: "Appeal to
Heaven" and the floating batteries of the State of Pennsylvania in the
Delaware River also carried this flag in the summer of 1775, and
likewise during the operations on that river in the defense of
Philadelphia in1777 and 1778. |
