This Article Betsy Ross flag is composed of Creative Common Content. The Original Article can be location at WikiPedia.org. The Betsy Ross flag is an early design of the flag of the United States popularly attributed to Betsy Ross using the common motifs of alternating redandwhite striped field with fivepointed stars in a blue canton. The flag was designed during the American Revolution and features 13 stars to represent the original 13 colonies. The distinctive feature of the Ross flag is the arrangement of the stars in a circle. Although the Betsy Ross story is accepted by most Americans some flag historians and revisionists do not accept the Betsy Ross design as the first American flag. According to the traditional account the original flag was made in June 1776 when a small committeeincluding George Washington Robert Morris and relative George Rossvisited Betsy and discussed the need for a new American flag. Betsy accepted the job to manufacture the flag altering the committees design by replacing the sixpointed stars with fivepointed stars. While the Betsy Ross legend is questionable the fla

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