1.
West Florida Republic Flag , September 26, 1810:
“The Louisiana Purchase of 1803 had left the territory 
of West Florida – the area between the
Pearl and the Mississippi Rivers – in Spanish control.”
In September 1810, group of settlers seized control,
declared themselves a republic and offered themselves for immediate
annexation to the United States. President James Madison
obliged. “Thus, early nineteenth century Americans adopted
the five-point star as a symbol of ‘enlightened revolution
against old-word monarchies – a moral crusade for the rights
of man’.”<1>
2.
Long’s Expedition Flag , June 1818: The Adams-Onis
Treaty of 1819 
confirmed that Texas was a part of Spanish
Mexico. Some lower South citizens thought it belonged to
the United States and organized an army under the command of Dr.
James Long. The arrived in Nacogdoches and declared the
province independent from Spain with the intention of delivering
it to the United States. They flew a silk lone-star flag.
The Spanish authorities quickly drove the filibusters back
across the Sabine. <2>
3.
Scott’s “Independence” Flag , mid-Sept.
1835: The first Texas battle flag to use the lone star
symbol. The local 
committee of vigilance and safety sent out
a call to arms on about September 19, 1835 in response to news
that Gen. Cos planned an invasion of Texas. About 30 men
responded to the call in Lynchburg and were fully equipped by
William Scott. He decided a flag should be made.
Charles Lanco, with the assistance of Mrs. Joseph Lynch at Lynchburg
made the flag (probably before Dodson‘s flag) . “Four
yards of blue silk donated by Scott with a painted white star
and the word “Independence.” James L. McGahey
took the flag to the battle of Concepcion (Oct. 28 th ) (but had
put in his nap sack at San Felipe so it might not have flown),
where he gave it to Thomas B. Bell, who flew it at the Grass Fight
(Nov. 26) and perhaps in the (final stage of the) Siege of Bexar.”
<3>
Footnotes:
<1> Mayberry, p. 21
<2> ibid, p. 21
<3> Mayberry, p. 24; New Handbook Online, "Flags";
Southwestern, Vol. 18, p. 271
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