 | Charles Sumner - History - 1867 - 36 pages
...resolution adopted 14th June, 1777, and made public 3d September, 1777, determined " that the Flag of the United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white ; that the Union be thirteen stars, white on a blue field, representing a new constellation." Here the crosses of St. George and St. Andrew gave... | |
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - African Americans - 1867 - 492 pages
...Continental Congress of America, evincing on the part of its members a notably nice discrimination of colors, resolved, "That the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternately red and white; and that the Union be thirteen stars, white on a blue field, representing... | |
 | Joseph Haydn, Benjamin Vincent - Chronology, Historical - 1867 - 178 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 thirteen stars, white, on a blue field—representing... | |
 | United States - 1868 - 422 pages
...following resolution : " Resol/oed, That the flag of the thirteen 'United States be thirteen Btripes, alternate red and -white, that the union be thirteen...in a blue field, representing a new constellation." A constellation, however, could not well be represented on a flag, and so it was changed into a circle... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1869 - 856 pages
...Congress June 14, 1777, thus providing a snbBtitute for the crosses of St. George and St. Andrews, that — "the Union be thirteen stars, white in a Blue Field — representing a new eonttellation." tion was established, such to be the true political condition. " The UNION and INDEPENDENCE... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Elocution - 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 - United States - 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...in a blue field, representing a new constellation." A constellation, however, could not well be represented on a flag, and so it was changed into a circle... | |
 | 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...in a blue field, representing a new constellation." A constellation, however, could not well be represented on a flag, and so it wa3 changed into a circle... | |
 | George Henry Preble - Flags - 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 - America - 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,... | |
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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. 
