| W. D. Cooper - 1818 - 314 sider
...Burgoyne equally excited the astonishment of friends and enemies. On the 14th of June, the Congress resolved, that the flag of the Thirteen United States...alternate red and white ; that the union be thirteen start, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation. It was not till the third of September... | |
| Samuel Hazard - 1828 - 430 sider
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| Peter Force - 1833 - 356 sider
...Captain is to take command of. The Flag of the United States was adopted OB the 14th of June, 777, when it was Resolved, That the Flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, lernatered and white; and tha' the union be thirteen stars, white in a lue field, representing a new... | |
| Peter Force - 1836 - 452 sider
...the Flag f the United States, is the following resolution, adopted on the Hih ol une, 1777 : — " Resolved, That the Flag of the thirteen United States...that the Union be thirteen stars, white in a blue Eeld, representing a new constellation." On the 13th of January, 17!) t, after the admission of Vermont... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 378 sider
...country. 3. This year, also, congress adopted a national flag. The resolution was in these words : " Resolved, that the flag of the thirteen United States...red and white ; that the union be thirteen stars, in a blue field, representing a new constellation." 4. For nearly a year before the surrender of Burgoyne,... | |
| 1894 - 668 sider
...resolved, on June 14, 1777, " that the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes alternately red and white ; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing я new constellation." Hence the " Stars nnd Stripes." 0. P. HALB. [See 7 lh Э. vi. 328, 494.] CHRONOGRAM.—The... | |
| Benson John Lossing - 1851 - 596 sider
...stars were not used until 1777. On the 14th of June that year, Congress "resolved that the flag ol the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white ; that the Union be thirteen starr, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation." Since then we have added a star for... | |
| 1852 - 650 sider
...His Query might be answered briefly by stating that the American Congress, on the 14th of June, 1777, "Resolved that the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternately red and white; that the Union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a... | |
| 1852 - 782 sider
...His Query might be answered briefly by stating that the American Congre-s, on the 14th of June, 1777, "Resolved that the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternately red and white ; that the Union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a... | |
| 1907 - 404 sider
...day in 1777 ngress enacted "That the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alernate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, reprenting a new constellation." The officers of the association are: President, Colonel •aJph E.... | |
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