{"id":1377,"date":"2018-11-29T19:18:41","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T19:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davehuer.com\/cartoproblematica\/?p=1377"},"modified":"2020-10-07T05:32:45","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T05:32:45","slug":"yorks-1812-garrison-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davehuer.com\/cartoproblematica\/yorks-1812-garrison-flag\/","title":{"rendered":"York (Toronto)&#8217;s War of 1812 Garrison Flag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/davehuer.com\/cartoproblematica\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/11\/1812-flag-annapolis.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1378 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/davehuer.com\/cartoproblematica\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/11\/1812-flag-annapolis.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"598\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davehuer.com\/cartoproblematica\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/11\/1812-flag-annapolis.png 598w, https:\/\/davehuer.com\/cartoproblematica\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/11\/1812-flag-annapolis-300x226.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 598px) 100vw, 598px\" \/><\/a>The British Royal Standard flown by the office of the Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada from 1801-1813, until captured by American forces during the occupation of York (now Toronto), on April 27, 1813.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The flag is at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usna.edu\/Museum\/index.php\">United States Naval Academy<\/a> in Annapolis, Maryland. In April 2018, it was removed from its case for restoration.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">During the viewing ceremony, American, Canadian, and British naval officers formally spoke about the history of the flag and the conflict. The size of the thing &#8211; simply stunning!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2018\/04\/27\/trophy-war-us-took-toronto-200-years-later\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2018\/04\/27\/trophy-war-us-took-toronto-200-years-later\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British Royal Standard flown by the office of the Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada from 1801-1813, until captured by American &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,66,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1st-british-empire-to-1848","category-british-colonial-history","category-canadian-history"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davehuer.com\/cartoproblematica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davehuer.com\/cartoproblematica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davehuer.com\/cartoproblematica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davehuer.com\/cartoproblematica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davehuer.com\/cartoproblematica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1377"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/davehuer.com\/cartoproblematica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2737,"href":"https:\/\/davehuer.com\/cartoproblematica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377\/revisions\/2737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davehuer.com\/cartoproblematica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davehuer.com\/cartoproblematica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davehuer.com\/cartoproblematica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}