 | William James - 1826 - 606 pages
...United States should be 13 stripes, 2n2 1799. alternate red and white ; and that the union should '-v~' be 13 stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation. On the 28th of October, 1779, congress established a board of admiralty, to consist of five commissioners... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1862 - 894 pages
...having become inappropriate after the declaration of independence, it was ordered by congress, Juno 14, 1777, ''that the flag of the 13 United States...constellation." It is not known precisely to whom is due tho credit of suggesting the stars for the union. The idea is supposed to have emanated from John Adams,... | |
 | William Thomas Roberts Saffell - Mount Vernon - 1864 - 142 pages
...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.'...emanated from John Adams, who was then chairman of the hoard of war ; and it has also been urged with considerable plausibility, that the stars and stripes... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1874 - 872 pages
...were retained in the flag until the following year. Congress resolved on June 14, 1777, "that the flng of the 13 United States be 13 stripes alternate red...in a blue field, representing a new constellation." This is the first recorded legislative action for the adoption of a national flag. The resolution was... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1874 - 1324 pages
...the following year. Congress resolved on June 14, 1777, "that the flag of the 13 United States be 18 stripes alternate red and white ; that the union be...13 stars, white in a blue field, representing a new consteUation." This is the first recorded legislative action for the adoption of a national flag. The... | |
 | United States - 1877 - 994 pages
...United States be 1 3 stripes alternate red and white ; that the union" (ie, the canton of the flag) "be 13 stars white in a blue field representing a new constellation." The resolution next preceding that quoted above is as follows: "Resolved, That the Marine Committee... | |
 | George Henry Preble - Flags - 1880 - 890 pages
...change it for a worse. I wish them no UL' " — Duulop's History of the Arts of Design in America. and white ; that the union be 13 stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation." 1 This resolve was printed in the papers in August, but was not officially promulgated over the signature... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1883 - 904 pages
...inappropriate, but they were re' tuined in the flag until the following year. Congress resolved on June 14, 1777, "that the flag of the 13 United States...in a blue field, representing a new constellation." This is the first recorded legislative action for the adoption of a national ting. The resolution was... | |
 | Joseph Haydn - Chronology, Historical - 1883 - 838 pages
...Idem. The earliest legislation concerning the United States flag was a resolution of congress, 14 June, 1777, "that the flag of the 13 United States be 13...union be 13 stars, white in a blue field, representing the new constellation." This flag was lirst raised by Paul Jones on the Ranger. In 1794 it was resolved... | |
 | United States - 1894 - 678 pages
...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. It is this official act in memory of which the Daughters and Sons of the American Revolution have made efforts... | |
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that the Flag of the United States be 13 stripes alternate red and white, that the union be 13 stars white In a blue field representing a new constellation. 
