on the 100th anniversary of the Flag Resolution of 1777. However, it is believed that the first annual recognition of the flag's birthday dates to 1885 when schoolteacher BJ Cigrand organized a ...
armed American units from the countryside began to assemble, according to historian Stephen Darley’s 2015 book, “Call to Arms: The Patriot Militia in the 1777 British Raid on Danbury, ...