{"title":"First Navy Jack Flags","description":"\u003cspan\u003eIn the autumn of 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\" (sic); 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\". In 1778, John Adams and Benjamin Franklin wrote a letter to the Ambassador of Naples, thanking him for allowing entry of American ships into Sicilian ports. The letter describes the American flag according to the 1777 Flag Resolution, but also describes a flag of \"South Carolina, a rattlesnake, in the middle of the thirteen stripes.\" The rattlesnake had long been a symbol of resistance to the British in Colonial America. The phrase \"Don't tread on me\" was coined during the American Revolutionary War, a variant perhaps of the snake severed in segments labelled with the names of the colonies and the legend \"Join, or Die\" which had appeared first in Benjamin Franklin's Pennsylvania Gazette in 1754, as a political cartoon reflecting on the Albany Congress. The rattlesnake (specifically, the Timber Rattlesnake) is especially significant and symbolic to the American Revolution. The rattle has thirteen layers, signifying the original Thirteen Colonies. And, the snake does not strike until provoked, a quality echoed by the phrase \"Don't tread on me.\"\u003c\/span\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"3x5-ft-first-navy-jack-premium-nylon-annin-co","title":"3x5 ft First Navy Jack Premium Nylon Flag - Annin Co.","description":"\u003cdiv id=\"sc-tab-details\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"sctabinfo\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"infobox\" name=\"Specifications\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003e100% Nylon 1st Navy Jack Flag 3 x 5 Ft - Brass Grommets\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eOur most durable flag. Made in USA by Annin Flag Co. The best flag you can buy.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eIn 1980 the Secretary of the Navy directed that the ship with the longest active status shall display the First Navy Jack until decommissioned or transferred to inactive service. Then the flag will be passed to the next ship in line. 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Made in USA by Annin Flag Co. The best flag you can buy.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCommodore Oliver Hazard Perry (August 2, 1785 – August 23, 1819) was born in South Kingstown, Rhode Island, the son of Captain Christopher Raymond Perry and Sarah Wallace Alexander. He was an older brother to Matthew Calbraith Perry. As a boy, he lived in South Carolina, sailing ships practicing for his future career as an officer in the US Navy. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHe served in the War of 1812 against Britain, and earned the title \"Hero of Lake Erie\" for leading American forces in a decisive naval victory at the Battle of Lake Erie. The city of Perrysburg, Ohio the borough of Perryopolis, Pennsylvania, Perry County, Pennsylvania, Oliver Township in Perry County, Pennsylvnania, as well as the village of Perrysburg, New York and its the surrounding township are all named after him. Through his mother, Perry is descended from Scotland's national hero, William Wallace. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEducated in Newport, Rhode Island, Perry was appointed a midshipman in the United States Navy on April 7, 1799. During the Quasi-War with France, he was assigned to his father's frigate, the USS General Greene. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHe first experienced combat on February 9, 1800, off of the French colony of Haiti, which was in a state of rebellion. During the First Barbary War, he initially served on the USS Adams and later commanded USS Nautilus during the capture of Derna. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAt Perry's request during the War of 1812, he was given command of United States naval forces on Lake Erie. He supervised the building of a small fleet at Dobbin's Landing in Presque Isle Bay in Erie, PA. On September 10, 1813, Perry's fleet defended against an attacking British fleet at the Battle of Lake Erie. Perry's flagship, the USS Lawrence, was destroyed in the encounter and Perry was rowed a half-mile through heavy gunfire to transfer command to the USS Niagara, carrying his battle flag (reading \"DONT GIVE UP THE SHIP\", the final words of Captain James Lawrence). Perry's battle report to General William Henry Harrison was famously brief: \"We have met the enemy and they are ours; two ships, two brigs, one schooner and one sloop.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHis victory opened Canada up to possible invasion, while simultaneously protecting the entire Ohio Valley. 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This polyester material has an open weave that allows the flag to fly in very light breezes. Featuring white Polyester Duck heading and brass grommets.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCommodore Oliver Hazard Perry (August 2, 1785 – August 23, 1819) was born in South Kingstown, Rhode Island, the son of Captain Christopher Raymond Perry and Sarah Wallace Alexander. He was an older brother to Matthew Calbraith Perry. As a boy, he lived in South Carolina, sailing ships practicing for his future career as an officer in the US Navy. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHe served in the War of 1812 against Britain, and earned the title \"Hero of Lake Erie\" for leading American forces in a decisive naval victory at the Battle of Lake Erie. 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