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December 3, 1775 — Grand Union Flag

November 30, 1782 — The United States and Britain signed preliminary peace articles in Paris, ending the Revolutionary War.

December 3, 1775 — Americans first hoisted the the Grand Union Flag on the colonial warship Alfred, in the harbor on the western shore of the Delaware River at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on December 3, 1775, by newly appointed Lieutenant John Paul Jones of the formative Continental Navy.

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