The Link, Vol. 32

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Excerpt from The Link, Vol. 32: A Magazine for Armed Forces Personnel, June 1974The canton or upper left comer of the altered British ¿ag was left with the red cross of St. George and the white cross of St. Andrew. This flag looked almost exactly like that of the British East India Company whose tea had been tossed into Boston Harbor a few years earlier.Washington, as Commander-in Chief of the Continental fighting forces, asked Congress many times for a new ¿ag for his regiments on land and the ¿eet at sea. But that body was too busy to supply them immediately, even though the Navy was in special need Of a different flag to distinguish our-ships on the ocean and in foreign ports.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.