Meet the American who stitched the Stars & Stripes, Betsy Ross, reputed wartime seductress
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Betsy Ross is credited with creating the first Stars & Stripes American flag. Her real contributions to the American Revolution are perhaps much more dramatic than the flagmaking legend.
Some of the Americans marched barefoot. Two of them froze to death. "They had been appointed to prepare a flag, and asked her if she thought she could make one." "Washington's brave soldiers would win a series of victories at Trenton and Princeton that were glorious indeed." "Betsy Ross comes to us today in story, song and pageantry as the maker of the first United States flag," Kerry J. Byrne is a lifestyle reporter with Fox News Digital.
"Today, while many Americans have come to take the legend and romance of it with a grain of salt, Betsy Ross’ popularity is nevertheless undiminished," Marla R. Miller wrote in her 2010 biography, "Betsy Ross and the Making of America."
The real story of Betsy Ross is even greater than the highly plausible account of America’s first flagmaker.
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