She may therefore be esteemed an emblem of vigilance. there was painted a Rattle-Snake, with this modest motto under it, "Don't tread on me." she has no eye-lids. In December 1775, Benjamin Franklin published an essay in the Pennsylvania Journal under the pseudonym "American Guesser" in which he suggested that the rattlesnake was a good symbol for the American spirit and its valuation for vigilance, assertiveness, individualism, unity, and liberty: In 1774, Paul Revere added Franklin's iconic cartoon to the nameplate of Isaiah Thomas's paper, the Massachusetts Spy, depicted there as fighting a British griffin. This was the first political cartoon published in an American newspaper.
It represented the colonies, with New England joined as the head and South Carolina as the tail, following their order along the coast. In 1754, during the French and Indian War, Franklin published Join, or Die, a woodcut of a snake cut into eight sections. It had been the policy of Parliament to send convicted criminals to the Americas (primarily the Province of Georgia), so Franklin suggested that they thank them by sending rattlesnakes to Britain. In 1751, he made the first reference to the rattlesnake in a satirical commentary published in his Pennsylvania Gazette. Its use as a symbol of the American colonies can be traced back to the publications of Benjamin Franklin. Like the bald eagle, part of its significance is that it was unique to the Americas, serving as a means of showing a separate identity from the Old World. The timber rattlesnake can be found in the area of the original Thirteen Colonies. History of rattlesnake symbol in America
However, some versions of the flag show the snake facing to the right. The rattlesnake usually faces to the left, and the early representations mentioned above face left.
The rattlesnake sometimes is shown as resting on a green ground representations dating from 18 do not display anything below the rattlesnake. The motto sometimes includes an apostrophe in the word "Don't" and sometimes not : 339 the typeface used for the motto is sometimes a serif typeface and other times sans-serif. Many variations of the Gadsden flag exist.
It was used by the Continental Marines as an early motto flag, along with the Moultrie flag. The flag is named after politician Christopher Gadsden (1724–1805), who designed it in 1775 during the American Revolution. Some modern versions of the flag include an apostrophe. Beneath the rattlesnake are the words: "Dont tread on me", all in uppercase letters. The Gadsden flag is a historical American flag with a yellow field depicting a timber rattlesnake coiled and ready to strike.
Coiled and ready to strike Patch#
A yellow banner charged with a yellow coiled timber rattlesnake facing toward the hoist sitting upon a patch of green grass, with thirteen rattles for the thirteen colonies, the words "DONT TREAD ON ME" positioned below the snake in black.
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