 | Mary Mapes Dodge - Children's literature - 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 - Caribbean Research Council - 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 - Children's literature - 1917 - 592 pages
...LEAGUE. JULY i "A HEADING FOR Jl'LV." BY LOUISE LAKE, AGR 14. (HONOR MEMBER.) and white, and that there be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation." This was the origin of the national flag. At first, as the number of the stripes was unequal, the flag... | |
 | Readers - 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... | |
 | England - 1874 - 802 pages
...were struck ont; on that day Congress "resolved that the flag of the thirteen United States should be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the Union be thirteen stars, whita on a blue field, representing a new constellation." The heraldry was original, but the idea was... | |
 | Bunker Hill Monument Association - Bunker Hill Monument (Boston, Mass.) - 1874 - 822 pages
...cruelty and oppression. On the fourteenth day of June, 1777, it was resolved by Congress, " that the Hag 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.... | |
 | GEORGE BANCROFT. - 1875 - 518 pages
...Saturday the fourteenth of June, about the hour when the two armies first confronted each other, congress "resolved that the flag of the thirteen United States...blue field, representing a new constellation." The immovable fortitude of Washington in his camp at Middlebrook was the salvation of that beautiful flag.... | |
 | Almanacs, American - 1875 - 160 pages
...but they were retained in the flag until the following year. Congress resolved, on June 14, 1777, " that the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen...in a blue field, representing a new constellation." — Anpletons1 American Cyclopcedia. LORD EDWARD FITZGERALD. AMONG the many who have laid down their... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - Anthologies - 1875 - 868 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,...in a blue field, representing a new constellation." There is a striking coincidence between the design of our flag and the arms of Greneral Washington,... | |
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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. 
