{"id":84198,"date":"2019-01-14T11:27:47","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T15:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=84198"},"modified":"2019-01-14T14:08:55","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T18:08:55","slug":"the-first-navy-jack-a-maritime-symbol-of-freedom-and-resistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=84198","title":{"rendered":"The First Navy Jack: A Maritime Symbol of Freedom and Resistance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/first-navy-jack-flag-maritime-symbol-freedom-resistance.jpg\" alt=\"Navy Jack\" \/>Navy Jack<\/p>\n<p>Since it&#8217;s obvious to me there hasn&#8217;t been enough flags or Navy here of late, I was fortunate enough to come across this bit of history.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Among pre-Constitutional American flags is the First Navy Jack \u2013 the current national maritime flag and an official symbol of the United States government to this day. But it\u2019s not just the \u201cfirst\u201d Navy Jack \u2013 it\u2019s also the current Navy Jack. In fact, it\u2019s been used several times throughout America\u2019s history for our Navy, particularly during periods of nationalist and patriotic fervor. Where did the flag come from? And how did it become the current standard of the United States Navy?<\/p>\n<p>The symbolism of the flag is familiar to vexillologists and American patriots alike, bearing the 13 stripes to signify the original colonies that rebelled against the British Crown. Imposed on top are familiar symbols from the Gadsden Flag. First, the rattlesnake, this time uncoiled and not ready to strike. Second, the familiar legend \u201cDon\u2019t Tread On Me,\u201d often rendered without the apostrophe, as a warning to tyrants everywhere that the seemingly docile rattlesnake can quickly coil and strike when the time is right. This combination of American flag features along with a slogan of resistance to tyranny have created an iconic national flag. But it\u2019s not the original First Navy Jack.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, no one is quite sure what the original design was. Commodore Esek Hopkins commissioned a \u201cstriped\u201d jack, which many historians believe was the 13 stripes and nothing more. The earliest attested flag is from 1880, over 100 years after the formation of the Continental Navy and nearly a century after the formation of the United States Navy, and looked like what we now call the First Navy Jack. This design is found in History of the Flag of the United States by Admiral George Henry Preble, an influential history tome of the time. While this doesn\u2019t mean that the early Navy didn\u2019t fly the First Navy Jack, modern scholarship generally agrees that people believed this to be the design of the flag because of an incorrect pressing plate from the time of the American Revolution.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Gadsden Flag is a popular flight suit patch these days. Pretty cool, I think.<\/p>\n<p>The entire article may be read here, and there will be a test: <a href=\"https:\/\/ammo.com\/articles\/first-navy-jack-flag-maritime-symbol-freedom-resistance\">Navy Jack<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hat tip to Ammo.com for the article, images, and link. What? I forgot an image! Gotta fix that.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/flag-girl-e1547479206195.jpg\" alt=\"flag girl\" \/>Don&#8217;t tread on her! *grin*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Navy Jack Since it&#8217;s obvious to me there hasn&#8217;t been enough flags or Navy here of &hellip; <a title=\"The First Navy Jack: A Maritime Symbol of Freedom and Resistance\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=84198\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The First Navy Jack: A Maritime Symbol of Freedom and Resistance<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}