<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" id="mwGw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="American Revolutionary War">American Revolutionary War</a>: <a about="#mwt17" data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"USS","href":"./Template:USS"},"params":{"1":{"wt":"Alfred"},"2":{"wt":"1774"},"3":{"wt":"6"}},"i":0}}]}' href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Alfred" id="mwHA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="USS Alfred" typeof="mw:Transclusion">USS<span typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><i>Alfred</i></a> becomes the first vessel to fly the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Union_Flag" id="mwHQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Grand Union Flag">Grand Union Flag</a> (the precursor to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_the_United_States" id="mwHg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Flag of the United States">Stars and Stripes</a>); the flag is hoisted by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Paul_Jones" id="mwHw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="John Paul Jones">John Paul Jones</a>.<sup about="#mwt21" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-2"}}' id="cite_ref-2" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_3#cite_note-2" id="mwIA" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 2;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwIQ">[2]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-2"><cite about="#mwt18" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFHearst_Magazines1926">Hearst Magazines (October 1926). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=PNgDAAAAMBAJ&amp;pg=PA590" id="mwBsQ" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwBsU">Popular Mechanics</i></a>. Hearst Magazines. p.<span id="mwBsY" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>590.</cite><span about="#mwt18" class="Z3988" id="mwBsc" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Popular+Mechanics&amp;rft.pages=590&amp;rft.pub=Hearst+Magazines&amp;rft.date=1926-10&amp;rft.au=Hearst+Magazines&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DPNgDAAAAMBAJ%26pg%3DPA590&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADecember+3"></span></span>