Excerpt from Our Flag, Its History and Its Anniversaries: Together With a List of Patriotic Days and Holidays, a Calendar of American History and the Laws and Etiquette of the Flag; The Flag, the Coat-of-Arms, and the Great Seal of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Stripes) hoisted over Washington's headq'uarters at Cambridge, -mass. This was the first real flag of the Colonies. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.