{"id":476,"date":"2018-06-20T04:00:36","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T04:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smoketreemanor.com\/?p=476"},"modified":"2018-06-24T18:54:39","modified_gmt":"2018-06-24T18:54:39","slug":"the-first-state-delaware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smoketreemanor.com\/the-first-state-delaware\/","title":{"rendered":"The First State – Delaware"},"content":{"rendered":"
With Delaware we begin our journey through the states and territories of the United States.\u00a0 I briefly considered taking this journey in an alphabetical manner, but it occured to me that I go to pains to include some level of history in all of my flag blog posts that discuss flags of nations especially, so I decided to adopt an historical approach by flying the, and blogging about, the flags of the states and territories in order of their admission to the Union, in the case of states (ignoring readmission dates for those states which seceded during the Civil War) and date of acquisition for the territories.\u00a0 Utilizing this ordering system, I will start with Delaware, the first state to ratify the United States Constitution.<\/p>\n
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