Edited sentence: Also, the Grand Union Flag continued to uphold British loyalist symbolism, but the crosses in the canton were replaced with stars, to increase the capacity for each one of the colonies-become-states to be visible, rather than representing England and Scotland, as that government did not believe in representation for the Americans.Concurrently, the early coat of arms design which became the Great Seal of the United States, featured England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Holland and Germany and was to depict on the other side, the story of Hengist and Horsa landing in Britain.George Washington was offered the "American Crown", at a time in which other potential contenders were the Young Pretender and also the Duke of York, or possibly a Prussian, given the Founding Fathers' interest in Friedrich the Great's soldier Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben.Needless to say, Washington outright refused to have anything to do with monarchy and even George III was impressed