Show MANY FORMS OF EARLY FLAGS Various Were Used Before the theS S Present Form of Old Glory was Adopted S According to the the the- Smithsonian Institution I there were many forms of early earll flags especially colonial types used I by the individual colonies and militia regiments before the flag tIng of ot the UnIted United United Uni UnI- ted States was established by the continental continental continental con con- congress June 14 14 1777 the th anniversary of ot which date is now celebrated celebrated cel cel- cei- cei as flag fing- day dal This act required that the flag fing of ot the United States be beof beof of ot 13 horizontal stripes alternate red and white whit and that the union be 13 white stars stars on a blue field representIng represent represent- ing a. a new constellation One of the first occasions for tor public pub pub- lie lic display of the Stars and Stripes Is said to have been August 6 6 1777 1711 when the new flag was hoisted over the troops at Fort SchuYler Rome N. N Y John Paul Jones is 19 said to have hare been the first to fly lly the S and Stripes over the high seas on the Ranger In November 1777 From the time of the Revolution Revelation the Stars and Stripes ii In 11 the flag have Tal va Ta- a l k sled ried There were ere 13 stars during the ev 15 5 in the war of 1812 2 29 in In Inthe the Mexican war 33 to 35 in the Civil v war 45 in the Spanish war and 48 43 toda today The stripes w were we're re changed first tr from m 13 to 15 and then back again to 18 18 lB Our national flag 1131 II It among the o oldest est flags of the nations being older than the present British jack the French tricolor and the flag of Spain |