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DarkCrawler posted:Those are really cool. Some of them don't seem to have that much thought behind them, but some are pretty recognizable in interesting ways...  Boise's. An embattled line across a tree. Embattled means a city or town. Because it's the City of Trees.  I'd still rather have it on my stuff than any other piece of vexillography from the state, and I'm not even Catholic.
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Phlegmish posted:This flag looks like two reasonably good flags that have nothing to do with each other got mashed together. Amusingly, that's exactly what happened. Wikipedia posted:The Maryland colony was founded by Cecilius Calvert, second baron and Lord Baltimore, (1605-1675), which was granted to him as George's son and heir by King Charles I, hence the use of his family's coat of arms in the flag. At first, only the gold and black Calvert arms were associated with Maryland, being reintroduced in 1854.[2] The red and white colored arms of the Crossland family, which belonged to the family of Calvert's (Lord Baltimore's) paternal grandmother, gained popularity during the American Civil War, during which Maryland remained with the Union despite a large proportion of the citizenry's support for the Confederacy, especially in the central City of Baltimore and the counties of the southern part of the state and the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay. Those Marylanders who supported the Confederacy, many of whom fought in the Army of Northern Virginia of General Robert E. Lee, adopted the Crossland banner, which was red and white with the bottony (trefoil) cross [2] (seen as "secession colors") and often used a metal bottony cross pinned to their gray uniforms or caps (kepis).[citation needed]. The black and gold (yellow) colors with the chevron design of the Calvert family were used in the flags and devices and uniform pins of the Union Army regiments in the northern Army of the Potomac.
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