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{{Short description|British historian}}
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Sir '''Charles Fawcett''' (1869–1952)<ref>{{cite web|title=The first century of British justice in India|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/26664624?selectedversion=NBD2346278|website=National Library of Australia|publisher=Oxford : Clarendon Press|accessdate=26 January 2018|language=English|date=1934}}</ref> was a British historian. He served in the Indian Civil Service while India was a part of the [[British Empire]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Chandrachud|first1=Abhinav|title=An Independent, Colonial Judiciary: A History of the Bombay High Court during the British Raj, 1862–1947|date=2015|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780199089482|page=180|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=doM8DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT180|language=en}}</ref> He published a number of articles and books related to Indian history and was an expert on the [[British East India Company]]. His most famous article, published in October 1937 in the ''[[Mariner's Mirror]]'', suggests that the design of the [[flag of the United States]] may have been derived from the flag and [[Maritime flags#Jacks|jack]] of the British East India Company.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Horton|first1=Tom|title=History's Lost Moments Volume V: The Stories Your Teacher Never Told You|date=2014|publisher=Trafford Publishing|isbn=9781490744698|page=116|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=czXKBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT116|language=en}}</ref>

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== External links ==
* [https://flagspot.net/flags/gb-eic2.html Fawcett's article]

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