{"id":52,"date":"2012-01-21T23:09:11","date_gmt":"2012-01-21T23:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/?p=52"},"modified":"2012-01-21T23:09:11","modified_gmt":"2012-01-21T23:09:11","slug":"history-of-the-bennington-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/historical-flags\/history-of-the-bennington-flag\/","title":{"rendered":"History of the Bennington Flag"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Bennington Flag<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The earliest known flag of 13 stars and 13 stripes is the one which flew over the Battle of Bennington <\/a>in August of 1777,\u00a0by the Vermont Militia<\/span>,\u00a0 fortunately, it is still preserved today \"Thein the museum at Bennington, Vermont.\u00a0 as in many other flags from that era, the Bennington flag<\/a> has unexpected differences from the flag we love today. \u00a0The first flag law did not indicate exact details of colors, proportions, star arrangement, etc. \u00a0Since all flags were made by hand, each flag was more or less different from all others.\u00a0 No one today knows why the figure 76 was added in the canton.\u00a0 While the stars have have 7 points, other Revolutionary flag’ stars vary from 4 to 8 points.\u00a0The first Stars and Stripes to lead American armed forces on land.<\/span><\/p>\n

Our authentic\u00a0historical\u00a0reproductions of flags from American history are popular with collectors or as part of patriotic displays.\u00a0\u00a0The historical flags<\/a>\u00a0are manufactured with the same high quality outdoor construction<\/a> as our state and international flags<\/a>. \u00a0 All historical\u00a0flags are 3×5′ or as marked.\u00a0 Larger\u00a0historical flag\u00a0sizes and designs are available\u00a0upon\u00a0request as a custom flag.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bennington Flag The earliest known flag of 13 stars and 13 stripes is the one which flew over the Battle of Bennington in August of 1777,\u00a0by the Vermont Militia,\u00a0 fortunately, it is still preserved today in the museum at Bennington, Vermont.\u00a0 as in many other flags from that era, the Bennington flag has unexpected differences […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[45],"tags":[46,48,18,19,47],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t