 She says the flag was a message to the Brits who'd fired more than 1,800 cannonballs and shells on the fort. In the morning of that end of the battle, they were raising this oversized garrison flag to show the British, who were three miles out in the harbor, that Americans were still in control of the fortification. And its display is stunning. You're seeing it, what we say, by the dawn's early light, and it's massive. It's just a massive flag in a blackened color.