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Such a person was the
patriot Colonel Christopher Gadsden of South Carolina. He had seen and
liked a bright yellow banner with a hissing, coiled rattlesnake rising
up in the center, and beneath the serpent the same words that appeared
on the Striped Rattlesnake Flag – Don't Tread On Me. Colonel Gadsden
made a copy of this flag and submitted the design to the Provincial
Congress in South Carolina. Commodore Esek Hopkins, commander of the
new Continental fleet, carried a similar flag in February, 1776, when
his ships put to sea for the first time. |
