Nobody knows for sure that Betsy Ross designed the U. S. flag or sewed the first one. She was a seamstress in the the 1770s and COULD have done that. Among the papers she left, there is a record of...
No. This is a story made up by her grandson. Congress has recongnized Francis Hopkins who was commissioned by the navy in 1776 to make the flag. He used the basic design of the British Union Jack for...
She didn't make the flag. This is a story made up by her grandson. A man by the name of Francis Hopkins in 1776 was commissioned to make a flag for the navy. Congress has recongnized Hopkins for...