 | George Stillman Hillard - 1871 - 410 pages
...defiance to cruelty and opposition. 4. On the 14th day of June, 1777, it was resolved by Congress, " That the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white, and that the Union be thirteen white stars in the blue field." This resolution was made public September... | |
 | Erastus Buck Treat - 1872 - 404 pages
...American army. But in 1777, Congress, on the 19th day of June, passed the following resolution : " Resolved, That the flag of the thirteen United States...and white, that the union be thirteen stars, white, in a blue field, representing a new constellation." A constellation, however, could not well be represented... | |
 | Erastus Buck Treat - 1872 - 386 pages
...the American army. But in 1777, Congress, on the 19th day of June, passed the following resolution: " Resolved, That the flag of the thirteen United States...and white, that the union be thirteen stars, white, in a blue field, representing a new constellation." A constellation, however, could not well be represented... | |
 | George Henry Preble - 1872 - 578 pages
...be seen, but no other flag is visible. On Saturday, the 14th of June, 1777, the American congress " RESOLVED, That the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes alternate red and whste : that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation."... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1872 - 530 pages
...stated. The resolution was in these words : " Resolved, that the flag of the thirteen United States bo thirteen stripes, alternate 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,... | |
 | Mary Mapes Dodge, William Fayal Clarke, Albert Gallatin Lanier, Maurice R. Robinson - 1884 - 526 pages
...STARS AND STRIPES.* , x BY EDWARD W. TUFFLEY. ON the 1 4th of June, 1777, the Continental Congress resolved "that the flag of the thirteen United States...and white ; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation." This was the flag which, first unfurled by Captain... | |
 | Mary Mapes Dodge - 1885 - 506 pages
...in the Continental Congress; and, on the I4th of June, 1777, this resolution was passed: Rfs.-h^i, That the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen...alternate red and white ; that the union be thirteen stais, white, in a blue field, representing a new constellation, t The admission into the Union, after... | |
 | Lewis O. Thompson - 1873 - 336 pages
...of the second Continental Congress, (passed June 19, 1777), was re-affirmed in 1818, which provided, "that the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white, in a blue field, representing a new constellation," with the addition of a new star for each new State.... | |
 | Mary Mapes Dodge - 1903 - 600 pages
...thirteen stripes alternately red and white " (just as in the flag then in use), but " the union to be thirteen stars, white on a blue field, representing a new constellation " (see Fig. 6). In this new form we find another suggestion of the Washington coat of arms, which contained,... | |
 | 1874 - 226 pages
...defiance to cruelty and oppression. 4- On the fourteenth day of June, 1777, it was resolved by Congress, "That the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white, and that the Union be thirteen white stars in the blue field." This resolution was made public September... | |
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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. 
