“Don’t Tread On Me” all over the Navy uniforms and helmets — love it!
http://www.interesting.com/stories/gadsden/
quite proud of the fact that several of my ancestors from “John Proctor’s Battalion” out of Hannastown Westmoreland County Pa - among the first men to declare against the British and to march east to join Washington’ Army, carried the rattlesnake standard to battles in Trenton, Princeton and elsewhere in the east, and may have influenced its use as a navy standard
http://www.navyjack.info/history.html