Saint Croix 1770-1776: The First Salute to the Stars and Stripes BUS070000 DC and More

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Saint Croix 1770-1776: The First Salute to the Stars and Stripes BUS070000 DC and MoreRobert Amandus Johnson chronicled this period of the history of Saint Croix from 1770 1776 and the remarkable relationship of the Island to the emerging American Nation. It relates, what is believed to be, the first foreign recognition of the American "Stars and Stripes." This occurred in Christiansted, St Croix in June 1776, prior to Congressional approval of the Declaration of Independence. This early "Stars and Stripes" was being flown from the