WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The myth that Betsy Ross created the first American flag took off in the popular imagination and was enshrined in paintings like this Henry Mosler work, “The Birth of the Flag, ” depicting Ross and her assistants sewing in the Philadelphia house where she may not have actually lived.

Detailed explanation-2: -Betsy would often tell her children, grandchildren, relatives, and friends of a fateful day, late in May of 1776, when three members of a secret committee from the Continental Congress came to call upon her. Those representatives, George Washington, Robert Morris, and George Ross, asked her to sew the first flag.

Detailed explanation-3: -The thirteen stripes showed with the stars the number of the United Colonies, and denoted the subordination of the States to the Union, as well as equality among themselves.” A flag with a circle of stars was again found in 1782, in William Barton’s 2nd design for the Great Seal of the United States.

Detailed explanation-4: -As the most famous seamstress in American history comes back around for another 15 minutes of fame, it’s worth dusting off a history book to see what’s behind the flag that was sewn into the new line of shoes. You may have learned in elementary school that Betsy Ross sewed the first American flag at the request of Gen.

Detailed explanation-5: -An iconic figure of the American Revolution, Elizabeth “Betsy” Griscom Ross was born a fourth-generation American to a Quaker family on New Year’s Day of 1752 in the colonial city of Philadelphia.