Why the Betsy Ross Flag Is a Myth

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  • Опубликовано: 28 ноя 2024

Комментарии • 128

  • @ChessedGamon
    @ChessedGamon 3 года назад +119

    Considering all the weird star patterns old US flags could have, the plain circle pattern is really appealing and I’m glad that’s the one that stuck around.

  • @JJMcCullough
    @JJMcCullough 3 года назад +220

    Amazing video!

  • @juliaz12345
    @juliaz12345 3 года назад +62

    I am so happy to see you back with a great video!

  • @waywardstoner9416
    @waywardstoner9416 3 года назад +15

    The Gadsden flag is a true historical one

  • @Hand-in-Shot_Productions
    @Hand-in-Shot_Productions 3 года назад +38

    I knew this story in vague detail, and how it was historically disputed, but I did not know just _how_ mythical it was! I also did not know that Betsy Ross made flags for the Pennsylvania Navy!
    Also, I would agree with your statement that Washington wouldn't be involved in meeting with anyone to design a US flag. After all, a general would have had more important concerns than "going flag-shopping"!

  • @pizzagroom6221
    @pizzagroom6221 3 года назад +6

    Me thinks if the Continental Congress did not sanction the flag creation, it is possible it was just a (popular general's) warbanner later adopted by the public as a national symbol

    • @FlagAnthem
      @FlagAnthem 3 года назад +1

      He didn't even mention the other Revolutionary flags

  • @ItzAntoni_
    @ItzAntoni_ 12 дней назад +1

    I want to raise Betsy Ross's flag higher along with Aaron Burr, Sir

  • @LAPDDetFrost
    @LAPDDetFrost 2 года назад +14

    Everything you have said in your flag videos I did not know. I love these American flag videos, they are amazing and teach me more about my country's flags. You know a lot about flags, keep up the amazing work! Subscribed!

  • @nutella9261
    @nutella9261 2 года назад +13

    So when I was renovating my apartment, the guy that came to do my floors was very proud to announce that he was related to Betsy Ross. At the time I didn’t know it was a myth until I was having a conversation with my dad and he told me that Betsy Ross didn’t even make the flag. To be honest I was quite depressed after that.

    • @kerbalis3298
      @kerbalis3298 2 года назад +2

      still cool tho

    • @Ibisko
      @Ibisko 2 года назад

      @@kerbalis3298 the supreme flag of Pocatello!

    • @kerbalis3298
      @kerbalis3298 2 года назад

      @@Ibisko so glad somebody finally noticed!!! did you see they changed it to a much more pleasing design?

    • @Ibisko
      @Ibisko 2 года назад

      @@kerbalis3298 I really like the design of the new one. Not too simple and not too complicated like some other state/county flags.

    • @kerbalis3298
      @kerbalis3298 2 года назад

      @@Ibisko yea same. idk how i feel abt the red tho

  • @harchadsingh9270
    @harchadsingh9270 2 года назад +3

    Idea: History of the Brazil Flag in paper

  • @vkaPAUL
    @vkaPAUL 2 года назад +4

    Glad to see a researcher actually commenting on History not taught versus what we have been told. Kudos to you sir. Now if people really knew about the Reconstruction Act of March 2 1867 and what it did, I'd be happy to discuss and share information!

  • @francesgardner7070
    @francesgardner7070 3 года назад +3

    Making up lies about Betsy Ross
    Betsy Ross’s descendants🤝Someone I go to school with

  • @onlymonke5251
    @onlymonke5251 3 года назад +5

    I never knew this! Love watching your channel and learning new flag facts. Are you by chance a member of NAVA btw?

  • @lanahanbrian0
    @lanahanbrian0 3 года назад +3

    Mythical it may be but by now it's a widely beloved symbol of America's revolutionary history and independence.

  • @josephclement2677
    @josephclement2677 2 года назад +2

    Dude can u pls post one of those flag rating videos? Let's try country flags this time maybe.

  • @levimcglinchey5843
    @levimcglinchey5843 3 года назад +1

    Final subdivision flag video or we riot

  • @waffleman1832
    @waffleman1832 2 года назад +3

    I want this guy to be my history teacher

  • @vexillonerd
    @vexillonerd 3 года назад +4

    Yes. You are back!

  • @moondust2365
    @moondust2365 3 года назад +8

    Me, a Brony: "Is it just me or does that art style seem familiar?"
    *Twinkle Sprinkle intensifies*

  • @Nigu_Flags
    @Nigu_Flags 3 года назад +6

    Glad to see a one-shot video once again, and it was pretty interesting! I wonder how much the research took for this one :y

  • @SoybeanCC
    @SoybeanCC 3 года назад +2

    You are back!

  • @coltrne
    @coltrne 3 года назад +7

    Excellent video! I think the explanation of it being a patriotic story for after the Civil War is dead on, I had never thought about that before.

  • @TheMonarchOfTetris
    @TheMonarchOfTetris 3 года назад +3

    wow super interesting. I never knew about this. glad to see you back.

  • @alexspartichino4155
    @alexspartichino4155 2 года назад +4

    betsy was the og clout chaser lol

  • @juanglez9708
    @juanglez9708 3 года назад +3

    Good video👋👋
    Miss you a lot

  • @TheClanBlade
    @TheClanBlade Год назад

    This man is basically Adam ruins everything but with flags.

  • @carmaela2689
    @carmaela2689 2 года назад +4

    I love our flag and all of its variations and I LOVE history!

    • @lukescastle
      @lukescastle Год назад +2

      I'm sure the natives do too

  • @CL0NEM
    @CL0NEM 2 года назад +2

    This guy makes social studies fun.

  • @mlauntube
    @mlauntube 2 года назад

    I can't believe it!!! A RUclipsr citing sources and not just giving a narrative! And ... it's a young RUclipsr!!!

  • @markpatterson3723
    @markpatterson3723 3 года назад +3

    It’s a nearly identical flag to the British East India Company, minus the Union Jack. Very unoriginal.

    • @vexillonerd
      @vexillonerd 3 года назад +2

      That flag was just a flag of Majapahit Empire with Union Jack on it.

    • @vexillonerd
      @vexillonerd 3 года назад +2

      And don't forget the Grand Union Flag, that was basically the same.

  • @gregorymonroe8323
    @gregorymonroe8323 2 года назад +1

    Yeah but who has heard about the student who designed the 2nd U.S flag in the 20th century for a school project and his teacher wouldn’t give him an (it was giant and hand-made by him) A so he made his flag the official flag.

  • @yellowsnow711
    @yellowsnow711 2 года назад +1

    probably the only time i would willingly like to learn in my freetime

  • @kotaowens6978
    @kotaowens6978 Год назад +1

    Sounds like it was fabric…ation 😋

  • @thedudedylan
    @thedudedylan Год назад

    ok my kid has to write a report on Betsey ross and now we must decide if she should just write what they want to hear or if she should write the truth and possibly get a bad grade.

  • @vaginamerican
    @vaginamerican 3 года назад

    Wow. You're back. Nice.

  • @jettjd6891
    @jettjd6891 2 года назад

    Why are you not uploading on 2022

  • @GSWarriorsFan301
    @GSWarriorsFan301 3 года назад +3

    That’s some cool facts

  • @JimP226
    @JimP226 Год назад

    Great video! Thanks for sharing!

  • @sodasommelier4990
    @sodasommelier4990 3 года назад +1

    great video!

  • @morestuff64058
    @morestuff64058 2 года назад +5

    This guy teaches more than my teacher does

  • @a1vortecks856
    @a1vortecks856 2 года назад

    This was 5 months ago and good morning

  • @susanhester6081
    @susanhester6081 3 года назад

    My Scout Troop owns the Betsy Ross flag

  • @kathryncollins8708
    @kathryncollins8708 2 года назад

    All this said, I like the circle but that one with the three stars in the center of the circle is pretty cool also.

  • @TheSoldierChristian
    @TheSoldierChristian 2 года назад

    American apocrypha: Betty Ross

  • @RaFGavin陳子柆
    @RaFGavin陳子柆 2 года назад

    0:19 this animation...

  • @AK-4709
    @AK-4709 2 года назад +1

    We want an explanation about Iraq and its great history❤🇮🇶❤

  • @jaojao1768
    @jaojao1768 3 года назад +6

    This was interesting, and I am not even American!

  • @norwegianball7189
    @norwegianball7189 3 года назад +1

    Hi vexillographer!

  • @Iconoftheseas-h49
    @Iconoftheseas-h49 9 месяцев назад

    Now it has 50 stars

  • @BradanKlauer-xh3hm
    @BradanKlauer-xh3hm Год назад

    Damn good looking flag, though.

  • @ermilawati4345
    @ermilawati4345 2 года назад

    Hey cant you make Indonesia

  • @z4rash0rtc4ke2
    @z4rash0rtc4ke2 2 года назад

    Can you be my history teacher

  • @desireealta6608
    @desireealta6608 2 года назад

    I think the quality😊

  • @UnitedBeasters
    @UnitedBeasters 9 месяцев назад

    I see the old USA flag

  • @yugoslaviaball5284
    @yugoslaviaball5284 2 года назад

    “George Washington and the boys”

  • @Planelia
    @Planelia 3 года назад +1

    soon the flag of Monroe NC will change....
    changed by an 11 year old...

  • @villa_andromeda
    @villa_andromeda 3 года назад +2

    Let's gooo!!

  • @Hydrochloride17-v9j
    @Hydrochloride17-v9j 2 года назад

    I.... Don't know!

  • @ambers5705
    @ambers5705 Год назад

    If you guys love United States of America comment America

  • @gpsic-
    @gpsic- 2 года назад

    Good Learning! :>

  • @SamOrca-n3q
    @SamOrca-n3q Год назад

    Ok i was expecting the gut with that voice had a short hair not long lol.

  • @Jaaaaaaaaaaaaa
    @Jaaaaaaaaaaaaa 3 года назад

    Wait, why is your channel flag so similar to the vegan flag?

  • @goldenheart3887
    @goldenheart3887 2 года назад

    And now everyone knows you’re Round Trip.
    *yay*

  • @tombkings6279
    @tombkings6279 3 года назад

    Good video

  • @catsoffirstave1091
    @catsoffirstave1091 8 месяцев назад

    Wow, this stunning scholar, so amazing how he can relentlessly criticize all that is. What part of the story being handed down by Betsy herself did you not understand. She's a liar and all her descendants, too? Because you don't believe them? Go read the letter by William Canby. No transaction? Probably because she donated it, not because it's all a lie. People watching this: test everything and hold to that which is true.

  • @joescrazylife8150
    @joescrazylife8150 3 года назад +2

    That art style is similar to a brony's art style. Seems kinda sus my guy

  • @eligonzalo4119
    @eligonzalo4119 2 года назад

    Wow good video 👍

  • @topeo3691
    @topeo3691 2 года назад +1

    This is the first time I've ever even heard of Betsy Ross, It's either that or I just forgot. Either way it sounds like we can say that everyone who made a flag has made their own first flag.

  • @АлександрРахимов-й5п

    Thanks)It`s very interesting)

  • @glizzzerd
    @glizzzerd 6 месяцев назад

    More videos🙏🙏🙏

  • @jimmyg3835
    @jimmyg3835 Год назад

    i don't thank i have ever heard this story i have seen that painting i can't thank of a American that has not seen it but that story just seems to fack to me

  • @kurette1
    @kurette1 2 года назад

    Im good at geography

  • @FlagAnthem
    @FlagAnthem 3 года назад +1

    Good.
    I went from a legit flag made by a mythical person
    to a (semi)mythical flag totally not made by a real person

  • @GJCompanion
    @GJCompanion 2 года назад

    So Strange!

  • @tanvirahmed539
    @tanvirahmed539 2 года назад +1

    this guy has passed away, rip in peace

    • @Vexillographer
      @Vexillographer  2 года назад +3

      he will be remembered :'(

    • @tanvirahmed539
      @tanvirahmed539 2 года назад +1

      @@Vexillographer Lmao good comeback. Hope you are well. I wrote rip in peace so nobody takes the comment seriously.

    • @lukescastle
      @lukescastle Год назад

      @@Vexillographer damn I'm so sorry you died

  • @AsquatranananBananananan
    @AsquatranananBananananan Год назад

    I was 2K like

  • @rebeccazhang346
    @rebeccazhang346 3 года назад

    But why?

  • @donnalittle9959
    @donnalittle9959 2 года назад +1

    Nothing wrong with that flag only to people who trying to change history.

  • @mrcocoloco7200
    @mrcocoloco7200 2 года назад

    You need more views like wtf?

  • @ratweiler
    @ratweiler 3 года назад

    you cut your hair 👍

    • @ratweiler
      @ratweiler 3 года назад

      welcome back to society

  • @NickEh30VSFanFNFMod
    @NickEh30VSFanFNFMod 2 года назад

    camden will pay! 70

  • @TRAVEL-MODA--ChristinaSmith
    @TRAVEL-MODA--ChristinaSmith 2 года назад

    👋👋👋

  • @Thomasxedit363
    @Thomasxedit363 2 года назад

    😂

  • @terraspace1100
    @terraspace1100 3 года назад +2

    First

  • @rebeccazhang346
    @rebeccazhang346 3 года назад

    Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm?

  • @muwalawalubowa3506
    @muwalawalubowa3506 2 года назад

    🇲🇾🇲🇾🇲🇾

  • @jasonosbon5804
    @jasonosbon5804 2 года назад +1

    I like the legend of Betsy Ross...don't confuse me with the facts😊

  • @FussiestGrub726
    @FussiestGrub726 2 года назад

    🇺🇲

  • @ramonalilianaungureanu5670
    @ramonalilianaungureanu5670 2 года назад

    Vrea vrea🤮🤮🤮

  • @jasminecroft4685
    @jasminecroft4685 7 месяцев назад

    I am related to betsy ross🥰She did sew the first flag for sureeee!!!!!

  • @jasminecroft4685
    @jasminecroft4685 7 месяцев назад

    It is not a myth at all she really did sew the first ever american flag!!!

  • @josephmaller592
    @josephmaller592 3 года назад +1

    Great video!