 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - Literature - 1860 - 538 pages
...Congress, June 13, 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 a new constellation." There is a striking coincidence between the design of our flag and the arms of General Washington,... | |
 | Frank Moore - United States - 1860 - 576 pages
...Ledger, October 29. " Upoott, v. 85. ' Same, v. 87. be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; and that the union be thirteen stars white in a blue field, representing a new constellation. 1 JUNE 17.—A MEMORIAL was lately transmitted from England to Sir Joseph York, at the Hague, to be... | |
 | Frank Moore - United States - 1860 - 572 pages
...day resolved that the flag of the United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white ; and that the union be thirteen stars white in a blue field, representing a new constellation.1 JUNE 17. — A MEMORIAL was lately transmitted from England to Sir Joseph York, at... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1860 - 802 pages
...ascertaining. The stripes and stars were not used until 1777. On the 14th of June that year, Congress " resolved that the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate rod and white ; that the Union be thirteen stars, white in ablueneld, representing a new constellation."... | |
 | John Russell Bartlett - Americanisms - 1860 - 570 pages
...words : "Resolved, — That the flag of the thirteen United Colonies be thirteen stripes, alternately red and white ; that the Union be thirteen stars, white in a blne field, representing a new constellation." It has been thonght that the arms of Washington may... | |
 | Bunker Hill Monument Association - Bunker Hill, Battle of, Boston, Mass., 1775 - 1861 - 56 pages
...defiance to cruelty and oppression. 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 a blue field." This resolution was made public, Sept.... | |
 | Chronology, Historical - 1861 - 230 pages
...with thirteen rattles, in a crimson ground interlaced with white. On the 14th June, 1777, Congress resolved, "that the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternately red and white; that the union be thirteem stars, white, on a blue field—representing... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1862 - 582 pages
...used by Admiral Saunders at Quebec in 1759. On the 14th of June, 1777, it was resolved by Congress " That the flag of the Thirteen United States be thirteen...in a blue field, representing a new constellation." This resolution was not made public until the following September. Relative to the early New England... | |
 | John F. Callan, United States - Military law - 1863 - 912 pages
...June 14, 1777. Ertntftd, That the flag of the thirteen United States, be thirteen stripes, altTnate red and white : that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue representing a new constellation.' IN CONGRESS — June 18, 1777. , That a general officer commanding... | |
 | David Ames Wells - Reference books - 1863 - 470 pages
...flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternately red and white ; that the Union he thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation." The combination u thought to have been derived from the arms of General Washington, which contains three... | |
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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. 
