1776, the day the 13 original U.S. colonies declared their independence from Great Britain. The flag is also symbolic of cultural and historic solidarity for Americans, a shared past, present and ...

Since Confederation, the Canadian national flag had been the British Union Jack - a symbol of Canada's former colonial status. The Red Ensign - a modified version of the flag of the British ...

He did though begin his great project to create a new version of the Bible in English that would be used in both kingdoms. And he set about designing a new British flag. Yet despite this intense ...

On July 4, 1776, the 13 colonies ... absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally ...

January 26 marks the anniversary of the 1788 arrival of the First Fleet of British ships at Port Jackson, New South Wales, and the raising of the Flag of Great Britain at Sydney Cove by Governor ...

That morning many newspapers had carried warnings from the German Embassy warning that the coastal waters of the UK and her allies were war zones and as such any vessel flying the flag of Great ...

But all corners of Great Britain and Northern Ireland are represented in our editorial team, which makes us acutely aware that the Union flag doesn’t hold universal appeal in all parts of the ...

[3] Britain influenced the colonies ... In Pennsylvania, William Penn’s Great Act (1682) made passed in the colonies [sic]. By 1776, most of the colonies had roughly comparable death statutes ...

Lovers of progress and humanity cannot become acquainted with it without discovering that it has large significance, not only to India and Great ... flag the flag of freedom. They speak of the ...