 | Charles Sumner - 1877 - 562 sider
...June, 1777, and made public 3d September, 1777, Congress determined " that the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and...in a blue field, representing a new constellation." 1 Here the crosses of St. George and St. Andrew gave place to white stars in a blue field ; the familiar... | |
 | Society of the Army of the Tennessee - 1885 - 604 sider
...of Great Britain." June I4th, 1777, the American Congress resolved, "That the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes alternate red and...in a blue field, representing a new constellation." April 4th, 1818, Congress passed a resolution, "That from and after the Fourth day of July next, the... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1877 - 558 sider
...June, 1777, and made public 3d September, 1777, Congress determined " that the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and...in a blue field, representing a new constellation." 1 Here the crosses of St. George and St. Andrew gave place to white stars in a blue field ; the familiar... | |
 | Abner Comstock Smith - 1877 - 184 sider
...1777, Congress passed the following resolution: "RESOLVED, that the flag of the thirteen States l>e thirteen stripes, alternate red and white, that the...stars, white, in a blue field, representing a new Constitution." This resolution was made public Sept. 3d, 1777The first flag made in pursuance of it,... | |
 | Edward Howland - 1877 - 858 sider
...— Congress voted, " That the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternately red and white ; that the union be thirteen stars,...blue field, representing a new constellation." This order was not promulgated until September. With the new order of things a new commerce had opened to... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1877 - 894 sider
...The flag of the thirteen United States shall be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white, the Union thirteen stars, white, in a blue field, representing a new constellation." This continued to be the flag until two new States were ad in it ted into the Union, namely, Vermont, in... | |
 | david clapp - 1877 - 496 sider
...the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate rod and white; that the uniun be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation." JWD RECENT PUBLICATIONS, Presented to the yew-England Historic, Genealogical Society to June I, 1877.... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1878 - 648 sider
...u. when the two armies first confronted each other, congress "resolved that the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and...in a blue field, representing a new constellation." The fortitude of Washington in his camp at Middlebrook was the salvation of that flag. The guard of... | |
 | New England historic genealogical society - 1879 - 168 sider
...American congress passed the resolve : " That the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen~stripes, alternate red and white ; that the union be thirteen...in a blue field, representing a new constellation." jw D. First Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston, 1876. [Seal.] Boston : Rockwell... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant, Sydney Howard Gay - 1879 - 758 sider
...of the thirteen United Colonies be thirteen stripes, alternate red and Rattlesnake nag. white, and the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation." With the addition of stars, this has continued to be the national standard. But General Howe, shut... | |
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that the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation. 
