 | Addie Guthrie Weaver - 1898 - 114 pages
...14, 1777, Congress finally officially adopted the flag of our Union and independence, as follows : Resolved, "That the flag of the thirteen United States...white; that the Union be thirteen stars, white in the blue field, representing a new constellation." There is not the slightest record in any of the... | |
 | 1898 - 688 pages
...NEILSON, describing what he saw ou the napkin, styles " a thunderbolt." [9"' SI Ji-JTE П. to " In June, 1777, the American Congress resolved : ' That the...of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternately red and white ; that the "union (ie, the upper quarter of the flag nearest to the staff)... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Grady - 1899 - 488 pages
...On June 14, 1777, the Congress which submitted the Articles to the States, passed this resolution: " That the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white, with thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation." Afterwards the stars... | |
 | United States. Navy Department. Bureau of Equipment - 1899 - 150 pages
...follows : — "J5e lt enacted, etc., That from and after the first day of May, 1795, the flag of the United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white ; that the union be fifteen stars, white in a blue field." As the number of States was rapidly increasing in the following... | |
 | Augustus C. Buell - 1900 - 366 pages
...passed the following resolution : Resolved, That the Flag of the Thirteen United States of America be Thirteen Stripes, Alternate Red and White; that THE UNION be Thirteen Stars in a Blue Field : Representing a NEW Constellation. Resolved, That CAPTAIN JOHN PAUL JONES be Appointed... | |
 | Woman's Relief Corps (U.S.) - 1901 - 446 pages
...day of June, 1777, the Continental Congress passed this memorable resolution : " That the flag of the United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the Union be thirteen white stars in a blue field, representing a new constellation " The hands of a woman, Mrs. Ross, of... | |
 | Etta Austin Blaisdell McDonald, Mary Frances Blaisdell - 1901 - 134 pages
...fourteenth day of June, 1777, Congress passed a resolution that the flag of the country be made in thirteen stripes, alternate red and white ; that the Union be thirteen stars within a field of blue, each star representing one of the thirteen colonies. The United States flag... | |
 | Etta Austin Blaisdell McDonald, Mary Frances Blaisdell - 1901 - 134 pages
...fourteenth day of June, 1777, Congress passed a resolution that the flag of the country be made in thirteen stripes, alternate red and white ; that the Union be thirteen stars within a field of blue, each star representing one of the thirteen colonies. The United States flag... | |
 | 1903 - 414 pages
...celebration of June 14 us "Па« Day" because on that day in 1777 Congress enacted "That the lias of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes,...alternate red and white: that the union be thirteen atar», white in a blue Held, reprebenting a new consu-llation." The officers of the association are-:... | |
| |
That the flag of the Thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white: that the union be thirteen stars, white on a blue field, representing a new constellation. 
