In the speech, Canby claimed that a bereaved Betsy Ross had been approached in 1776 by George Washington ... depicted soldiers carrying a tattered American flag across a field during the ...

The Betsy Ross flag was an early ... "But the likely apocryphal story that in June 1776 General [George] Washington consulted with Ross on the creation of a new flag, and she persuaded him to ...

The story that Ross sewed (and essentially designed) the "first American flag" was first related nearly a century after the ...

A Henry Mosler painting 'The Birth of the Flag' depicts Betsy Ross and her assistants sewing ... and commissioned to create the flag in 1776. There had been a flag design already in use, depicting ...

The “Did she or didn’t she?” debate over Betsy Ross and the creation of the country’s first flag in 1776 has gone on for centuries. The anti-Betsy faction usually advances these arguments ...

Welcome back for a simply patriotic episode of I Never Knew That!You know the American flag by its plethora of nicknames: Old ...

Betsy Ross, to most Americans means, “Flag Maker.” We see the image ... While guarding an ammunition storage area in mid-January 1776, Ross was mortally wounded in an explosion and died ...

According to History.com, General George Washington asked Betsy Ross to sew the first American flag it what was believed to be in 1776 or 1777; however, there is some doubt on if Ross actually had ...

The woman often credited with sewing the first national U.S. flag — at the request of George Washington himself, her descendants ...

The Betsy Ross flag has long ... come to symbolize the United States. The flag was made in 1776 at the request of George Washington, among others. Ross made the flag with 13 stars in a circle ...

Democratic presidential contender Beto O’Rourke said Wednesday that the 1776 Betsy Ross flag has become a symbol of white nationalism. The former House member from El Paso, Texas, made the ...