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The United States Flag

The first unofficial United States flag was raised at the request of the General in the time George Washington was president. It had 13 stripes alternating red and white. A popular story says that Betsy Ross made the first flag but nobody knows for sure. It could have been anyone.


Here is a list of the United States Presidents:

1. George Washington
2. John Adams
3. Thomas Jefferson
4. James Madison
5. James Monroe
6. John Quincy Adams
7. Andrew Jackson
8. Martin Van Buren
9. William Henry Harrison
10. John Tyler
11. James Knox Polk
12. Zachary Taylor
13. Millard Fillmore
14. Franklin Pierce
15. James Buchanan
16. Abraham Lincoln
17. Andrew Johnson
18. Ulysses Simpson Grant
19. Rutherford Birchard Hayes
20. James Abram Garfield
21. Chester Alan Arthur		 22. Stephen Grover Cleveland
23. Benjamin Harrison
24. William McKinley
25. Theodore Roosevelt
26. William Howard Taft
27. Thomas Woodrow Wilson
28. Warren Gamaliel Harding
29. John Calvin Coolidge
30. Herbert Clark Hoover
31. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
32. Harry S. Truman
33. Dwight David Eisenhower
34. John Fitzgerald Kennedy
35. Lyndon Baines Johnson
36. Richard Milhous Nixon
37. Gerald Rudolph Ford
38. James Earl Carter, Jr.
39. Ronald Wilson Reagan
40. George Herbert Walker Bush
41. William Jefferson Clinton
42. George Walker Bush
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QUOTES
"No taxation with out representation"
James Otis

"I know not what path others have taken but as for me give me liberty or give me death."
Patrick Henry

"Rally Mohawks! Bring out your axes and tell King George we'll pay no taxes!"

The angry colonist during the Boston Tea Party

 

"The Distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, and New Yorkers are no more. I am not a Virginian but an American."

Patrick Henry

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Comparison of Armies During the American Revolution

British
Continental
Carried heavy packs of supplies Had very light packs and not much supplies
Always marched in straight lines and never even stopped when a soldier went down Always marched in straight lines and never even stopped when a soldier went down
Had very fancy guns whith bayonets that they got from the French Only had farm muskets that they had used before the war for hunting
Had fancy uniforms and tall furry hats; their uniforms were red which made the colonists call them bloody backs Had worn-down uniforms with dull colors to hide in the woods; their hats had three corners
Had over ten thousand soldiers all which had been trained Had around five hundred soldiers that mostly were farmers

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