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This arrangement of the 13 stars was done at the request of George Washington to honor Haym Solomon. Solomon would raise the $20 000 dollars Washington needed to march his army from Hudson Highlands (New York) to Yorktown, bringing the war to a close, and keeping Washington from being penned between two armies...

http://www.nps.gov/revwar/about_the_...m_salomom.html