#historical flags

Why not create a new version of the Confederate flag which includes the stars and bars combined with an anti-slavery emblem, such as a broken pair of shackles? This would signify that the user of the flag is in favor of states' rights, the right to secede, and/or the recognition of Southern history, but is opposed to slavery and racism.

- THE VETERAN EXEMPTS - The Battle of Plattsburg, 1814 The Veteran Exempts, commanded by a Captain Melvin L. Woolsey, was a local New York militia company, formed in July of 1812, which was made up of veterans of the American Revolution who were otherwise exempt from military service because of their age. They were supposed to be the home guard. Allowing the younger members of the Militia and Armed Forces to engage the British on the front line. .... They ended up ignoring that and destroyed the British at The Battle of Lake Champlain. Effectively halting the British attempts to invade the Northern United States. The Veterans Exempt flag was described in the Plattsburgh Republican, July 31, 1812, as having "...a black ground with 13 stars for the Union of White, wrought in silver. That in the centre of the Flag there he a Death's Head, with cross bones under, intimating what must soon, according to the course of nature, be their promiscuous fate, and the immediate one of any enemy who shall venture to contend with them. Under these an open wreath, with this motto, ´Thy will he done.´ Over the Death's Head, surmounted as a crest, a Rattle-Snake with Thirteen rattles, coiled, ready to strike, with this motto in a similar wreath inverted over it, ´Don't tread on me.´"

Princely Flag of the Principality of Samos.

Though it participated successfully in the Greek War of Independence, Samos was not included in the Kingdom of Greece established in 1832; it was later established as a semi-independent nation as the Principality of Samos within the Ottoman Empire. It was later absorbed by Greece during the First Balkan War.

Flag used by the forces of  Andreas Londos during the Greek war of Independence.

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