How's Your US Flag Knowledge? (For U.S. Flag Day Tuesday, June 4)-- Part 1

Be sure to put your U.S. flag out this Tuesday because it is Flag Day.  It commemorates the adoption of the flag  by the Second Continental Congress of June 14, 1777.

RESOLVED, That the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation.

The United States Army also celebrates its birthday on this date, but they were formed in 1775 on June 14.

Here are some multiple choice questions too test your knowledge (from the Current GA site).

1.  The "Star-Spangled Banner" was written to celebrate U.S. forces surviving the British attack on:

a)  Independence Hall in Philadelphia;

b)  the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C.;

c)  Fort McHenry in Baltimore;

d)  Fort Pulaski in Savannah.

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2.  Francis Scott Key wrote the Star-Spangled Banner" from the deck of a British ship.  Why was he there?

a)  Key was negotiating the release of an American doctor/spy, William Beanes;

b)  Key was spying on the British Navy;

c)  Key was a journalist covering the battle;

d)  Key was a British agent.

ANSWERS BELOW.

1.  c

2.  a

Put Your Flag Out Tuesday.  --Cooter

Ten Facts About Battle of Princeton-- Part 8: The George Washington at Princeton Painting

10.  THE GEORGE WASHINGTON AT PRINCETON  PAINTING WAS WILDLY POPULAR AFTER ITS DEBUT

The news of George Washington's victory at Princeton electrified the country and doing his painting became the desire of leading artists of the day.

George Willson Peale, Washington's most frequent portraitist and a Continental Army veteran who was at Princeton, finished his George Washington at Princeton painting in early 1779.  The painting had been commissioned by the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania for its council chambers at Independence Hall in Philadelphia.

After its debut, there was a great clamor for replicas.  It is estimated that Peale created 18 or more different replicas of the painting for clients such as the Spanish Court, the island of Cuba and King Louis XVI.  Today, replicas can be found at  Princeton University, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Colonial Williamsburg,  the Museum of Virginia Fine Arts, the Cleveland Museum of Art and the U.S. Senate.

Each of these  copies employs different-sized  canvases, updated uniforms, varied backgrounds and other modifications.

--CootPeale