In the 1700s and 1800s ... disobedience in an attempt to gain independence from the British Empire. Figure caption, The Ghanaian flag was designed by Theodosia Okoh, a teacher and artist from ...

The First Sea Lord of the British Royal ... the crew to fly the flag. The ship's namesake, Rear Adm. Isaac C. Kidd, shared his surname with a pirate captain from the 1700s and his fellow ...

“The Argentine flag was prepared for hoisting on top of Stanley House but the rope snapped in the breeze, which was cheered by the British troops.” Mr. Muir and the other troops were captured ...

a days-long siege between British and American forces. The poem was set to a tune called “The Anacreontic Song,” which was composed in the late 1700s by a man named John Stafford Smith.