The British Union Jack was in the upper left-hand corner of the first unofficial American flag. An act signed in 1818 by this president called for the American flag to have 13 stripes and one star ...

Pennsylvania did not officially form a fighting unit until 1777 because the colony was governed largely by Quakers who did not want to mandate military service. Instead, residents had formed the ...

New Zealanders have voted to keep their national flag - which features the union jack - despite calls for it to be replaced with a silver fern. But where else does the flag of the UK still feature ...

Other nations, for the most part, reserve the flying of their national colors for government buildings and ceremonial events ...

The British Union Jack was in the upper left-hand corner of the first unofficial American flag. Ozgur Coskun/Shutterstock An act signed in 1818 by this president called for the American flag to ...

I had always understood that a 'Jack' was a small flag inserted in the top left hand corner of another flag. So the red and white ensigns and the flags of Australia and New Zealand have a union Jack i ...