Show Before the tho Stars Star and Stripes Strip The flag nag which the colonies all used usell before the tile Stars Stare and Stripes was wa adopted d was variously known as al the congress colors the grand union flag and the first navy ensign It consisted consist consist- ed Id of ot 13 stripes alternately red and white typifying the 13 colonies colonl s with witha a union unton bearing the tile crosses crolles of ot StGeorge St Bt StGeorge George and St. St Andrew combined the combined the national flag of ot Great Britain Britain signi signifying the mother country |