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The Gadsden flag is a historic American banner featuring a yellow background and a coiled timber rattlesnake poised to strike, accompanied by the phrase "Don't Tread on Me."

Named after Christopher Gadsden, a South Carolina delegate to the Continental Congress and a brigadier general in the Continental Army - the flag was designed in 1775 during the American Revolution. Gadsden presented it to Commodore Esek Hopkins, who displayed it on the main mast of his flagship, the USS Alfred, on December 20, 1775. Two days later, Congress appointed Hopkins as commander-in-chief of the Continental Navy, and he adopted the Gadsden flag as his personal banner while aboard. The Continental Marines also used the flag in the early stages of the war.

The rattlesnake symbolized the unity of the Thirteen Colonies at the onset of the Revolutionary War and has a rich history as a political emblem in America, famously used by Benjamin Franklin in his 1754 "Join, or Die" woodcut.