Note: The images on these pages were created by Larry D. Smith. The basic designs were derived from various sources, notably from the superb research of Edward W. Richardson. Fabric hues and flag dimensions may not be accurate in regard to those of the original colors, because many of the hues and dimensions are known only from contemporary paintings and engravings and/or from written sources. In the absence of actual examples to measure, the dimensions reflect derivations from contemporary paintings and engravings. Likewise, the hues employed are approximations, although the standard red and blue of the present-day national colors (standardized for the flag) of the United States of America have been employed in most cases.
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British Red Ensign
The Forster Flag
Sons Of Liberty Flag
Rebel Stripes
The Bedford Militia Flag
Liberty Flag
Liberty And Union Flag
New England Pine Tree Flag
Fort Johnson Flag
Fort Moultrie Liberty Flag
Tri-Colored Stripes Flag
Continental Union flown on The Alfred
Continental Union flown on The Lexington
Stars & Stripes Betsy Ross Flag
Stars & Stripes by Buell
Stars & Stripes by Mondhare
Stars & Stripes at Cowpens
Stars & Stripes by Lee
Ensign flown on The Alliance
Ensign flown on The Serapis
Stars & Stripes by Franklin And Adams
First Navy Jack ~ South Carolina Navy Ensign
Regimental Colors of the 2nd Dragoons
Regimental Colors of the 7th Pennsylvania
Standard of Proctor's Westmoreland Battalion
Anchor Standard of the Rhode Island Regiment
Militia Standard of General Sullivan's Life Guard
Washington's Headquarters Standard
Stars & Stripes by Shaw
Stars & Stripes Illustrated in the Berlin Almanac
Stars & Stripes by Trumbull
Fort Mercer Flag
Stars & Stripes at Yorktown
French Agenois Regimental Colors
French Champagne Regimental Colors
French Rouergue Regimental Colors
The Gadsden Flag
The George Rogers Clark Flag
The Liberty Tree Flag
The Delaware Militia Flag
The White Plains Flag
The Fort Independence Flag
The Guilford Courthouse Flag
The Hulbert Flag
The Green Mountain Boys Flag
The Bennington Flag
The Naval Privateer Flag
Regimental Colors of the 1st Pennsylvania
Regimental Colors of the Hanover Associators
Pulaski's Legion Standard
Regimental Standard of the 2nd Pennsylvania
Philadelphia Light Horse Standard
~ Note ~ The images on these pages were created by Larry D. Smith. The basic designs were derived from various sources. Fabric colors and flag dimensions may not be accurate in regard to the original flags. The viewer should keep in mind that very few of the original flags from the American Revolutionary War have survived. Most of the images that exist in printed materials and on the internet have been imagined by various artists, who may or may not have got the reproductions accurate and correct. Even in cases where the original flag, or just a remnant of it, survives, the colors will have faded over the years, and any artist's reproduction of that surviving flag or remnant will have been an estimation of how it appeared originally.
