Gadsden Flag, Don't Tread On Me Flag

The Gadsden Flag is available for outdoor display & stick mounted.  Outdoor Flags: Available in sizes 12x18" to 6x10'.100% Heavyweight SolarGuard Nylon. Features strong duck heading and two large brass grommets. Stick Flag: Available in 4x6" mounted on a black staff with gold spear. The Gadsden flag was designed during the American Revolution (1765-1783) by an American statesman, Christopher Gadsden, in 1775. The field was yellow and featured a rattlesnake that was coiled to strike. Below the rattlesnake, the words “Don’t tread on me” were printed. Rattlesnakes were plentiful in the original thirteen colonies. Benjamin Franklin first used the rattlesnake in a satire commentary that he wrote and that was published in the Pennsylvania Gazette in 1751. His cartoon noted that, since Britain was sending its convicted criminals to America, American should send its rattlesnakes to Britain. As time went on, the rattlesnake became a symbol of the ideals of America. Franklin published anothe