 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - Indians of North America - 1875 - 408 pages
...American troops into Boston when the royal troops marched out ; but Congress voted, June 17, 1777, "that the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white, and the union be thirteen white stars in the blue field." The first person to hoist this new flag over... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1876 - 650 pages
...On the fourteenth, about the hour June u. 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 fortitude of Washington in his camp at Middlebrook was the salvation of that flag. The guard of the... | |
 | Elbridge Henry Goss - Melrose (Mass.) - 1876 - 58 pages
...Congress adopted, as our national banner, the stars and stripes in the following resolution : — ' ' Resolved, That the flag of the thirteen United States...in a blue field, representing a new constellation." Since the day this resolution was adopted, great and wonderful changes have taken place in our nation's... | |
 | Frank Moore - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1876 - 1230 pages
...October 29. * Upcott, v. 85. • Same, T. 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... | |
 | Schuyler Hamilton - Flags - 1877 - 60 pages
...before stated, continued to be used until June 14, 1777, just one hundred years ago, when the Congress " Resolved, That the Flag of the Thirteen United States...in a blue field, representing a new constellation." Paul Jones, in command of the Ranger, demanded and received from the French Admiral in Quiberon Bay,... | |
 | Michigan. Adjutant-General's Department - Flags - 1877 - 142 pages
...coin, follows that of England, having six points. On the 14th of June, 1777, the American Congress " Resolved, That the flag of the thirteen United States...in a blue field, representing a new constellation." This is the first and only legislative action, of which there is any record, for the establishment... | |
 | Michigan. Adjutant-General's Department - Flags - 1877 - 128 pages
...coin, follows that of England, having six points. On the 14th of June, 1777, the American Congress " Resolved, That the flag of the thirteen United States...in a blue field, representing a new constellation." This is the first and only legislative action, of which there is any record, for the establishment... | |
 | United States - 1877 - 640 pages
...before stated, continued to be used until June 14, 1777, just one hundred years ago, when the Congress " Resolved, That the Flag of the Thirteen United States...in a blue field, representing a new constellation." Paul Jones, in command of the Ranger, demanded and received from the French Admiral in Quiberon Bay,... | |
 | New England - 1877 - 508 pages
...device, which were used previous to June 14, 1777, when the American congress passed the resolve : " That the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen...in a blue field, representing a new constellation." JWD RECENT PUBLICATIONS, Presented to the New-England Historic, Genealogical Society to June 1, 1877.... | |
 | Administrative law - 1990 - 384 pages
...were adopted as our Nation's emblem on June 14, 1777, when the delegates to the Continental Congress resolved "that the flag of the thirteen United States...in a blue field, representing a new constellation." This design captured the character of our fledgling Nation — while each State retained its distinct... | |
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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. 
