According to Gemini: The inclusion of the foreign ensign is primarily a legacy of the strong relationship forged between King Kamehameha I, the unifier of the Hawaiian Islands, and British Captain George Vancouver in the late 18th century

Please do! The more interesting one is in thread above, where I learned early US flag, that which Washington would have waved early on, was East India Company. He apparently scrambled to correct this with Betsy Ross quickly, but the stripes remained and never had anything to do with 13 colonies.