File:First Recognition of the American Flag by a Foreign Government.jpg
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English: Photo #: 80-G-K-21225 (color)
"First Recognition of the American Flag by a Foreign Government", 14 February 1778 Painting in oils by Edward Moran, 1898. It depicts the Continental Navy Ship Ranger, commanded by Captain John Paul Jones, receiving the salute of a French squadron under La Motte Picquet, with his flag on Robuste (1758), at Quiberon Bay, France, 14 February 1778. The original painting is in the U.S. Naval Academy Museum, Annapolis, Maryland. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. |
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| current | 15:36, 14 June 2012 | 4,980 × 2,800 (1.34 MB) | JMOprof | This "Hi-Res" JPG image has been cleaned to mitigate dust and other significant imaging flaws. Details of the original painting are unchanged. Work performed by the US Naval History & Heritage Command. Frame cropped by the uploader. | |
| 15:34, 14 June 2012 | 900 × 525 (62 KB) | JMOprof | Medium sized, with caption. | ||
| 15:33, 14 June 2012 | 200 × 111 (8 KB) | JMOprof |
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