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The England Flag, also known as St George's Cross, is represented by a red cross set on a white background. The red cross was also an emblem of a knighthood system originating in England’s ...
That flag featured a blue St. George's (or upright) cross on a red field. Emblazoned on the cross were fifteen white stars representing the slaveholding states, and on the red field were two ...
In the late 1890s, Gov. Francis P. Fleming said a red cross be added to reduce the older flag’s appearance, which was simply white with the seal, to a flag of surrender.
Even the original flag of the United States, first raised in 1775 was "a jack with the union flag, and striped red and white in the field". Notably, Hawaii retains the union flag in the canton of ...