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Image: Green Cross flag of Florida

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Description: Digital rendition of the Green Cross flag raised by en:Gregor MacGregor on Amelia Island, Florida in 1817, and later used as the supposed flag of Poyais in the 1820s.
Title: Green Cross flag of Florida
Credit: Corroborated by description on page 127 of Owsley Jr, Frank Lawrence; Smith, Gene A (1997). Filibusters and Expansionists: Jeffersonian Manifest Destiny, 1800–1821 (First ed.). Tuscaloosa, Alabama: Alabama University Press. ISBN 978-0-8173-0880-3. "MacGregor's flag, a green St. George's Cross on a white background called the Green Cross of Florida, was raised over Fernandina on 28 June 1817."
Author: Zscout370 at English Wikipedia
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