"American Flag" redirects here. For other uses, see American Flag (disambiguation).
For the flags of the U.S. states, and the flags of U.S. territories, see Flags of the U.S. states and territories.
For historical and other flags, see List of flags of the United States.
United States of America
Other names
The American flag,
The Stars and Stripes
Red, White, and Blue
Old Glory
The Star-Spangled Banner
United States (U.S.) flag
Use
National flag and ensign
Proportion
10:19
Adopted
December 3, 1775; 248 years ago (1775-12-03) (Grand Union Flag)
June 14, 1777; 246 years ago (1777-06-14) (13-star version)
July 4, 1960; 63 years ago (1960-07-04) (current 50-star version)
Design
Thirteen horizontal stripes alternating red and white; in the canton, 50 white stars of alternating numbers of six and five per horizontal row on a blue field
Pantone
The national flag of the United States (Spanish: Bandera Nacional de Estados Unidos)[a], often referred to as the American flag or the U.S. flag, consists of thirteen equal horizontal stripes of red (top and bottom) alternating with white, with a blue rectangle in the canton, referred to as the union and bearing fifty small, white, five-pointed stars arranged in nine offset horizontal rows, where rows of six stars (top and bottom) alternate with rows of five stars. The 50 stars on the flag represent the 50 U.S. states, and the 13 stripes represent the thirteen British colonies that declared independence from Great Britain, which they went on to secure by their victory in the American Revolutionary War.[1]
Nicknames for the flag include the Stars and Stripes,[2]Old Glory, and The Star-Spangled Banner.
Credit for the term "Stars and Stripes" has been given to the Marquis de Lafayette, a French soldier who volunteered his aid to the Continental Army, led by George Washington, in the Revolutionary War against Britain.[3]
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^Warner, John (1998). "Senate Concurrent Resolution 61" (PDF). U.S. Government Printing Office. Archived (PDF) from the original on May 6, 2009. Retrieved April 5, 2014.
^"History of the American Flag". www.infoplease.com. Retrieved December 13, 2015.
^"USFlag.org: A website dedicated to the Flag of the United States of America – "OLD GLORY!"". www.usflag.org. Retrieved December 13, 2015.
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