THE Gadsdenflag was firstflown in 1775, whentherebellion against the Britishfirstbroke out, brightyellowwithablackrattlesnake coiled above the motto “Don’t tread onme.”
There is enough here to fill several novels even without their black-eyed sister, Margaret, who joined the Jacobite rebellion of 1745, was imprisoned and escaped to France in disguise.