"By G-d, it is an American privateer. Don't you see the flag of the Continental Congress with thirteen stripes?" Splash went the anchor and down went the red, white, and blue flag of the Dutch ...

A flag resolution was adopted 248 years ago, on June 14, 1777, that said, "Resolved: that the flag of the United States be ...

during the Anglo-Dutch wars, he said, and was documented appearing the following century on American lifeboats. Such usage of the American flag was codified in the U.S. flag code, first drafted in ...