America flag

America flag

On January 1, 1776, the Continental Army, was placed under the control of George Washington, in accordance with the
decision on the reorganization of U.S. forces in Congress. Continental Army in the New Year's Day was created in the siege, the British army in Boston. Washington ordered the Grand Union Prospect Hill hoisted above his base. 13 alternate red and white stripes, and in the upper left corner (the canton) in the British Union Jack.

May 1776, Betsy Ross sewed the first American to know.

June 14, 1777, a new procedure to create an official national flag, the Continental Congress passed the first law of the flag: "We decided that the flag of the United States out of thirteen stripes, alternate red and white on the three trade union, white, blue field, representing a new constellation will be there. "