 | Michael Kent Curtis - Law - 1993 - 704 pages
...many centuries, the American flag was born officially on June 14, 1777 when the Continental Congress resolved that "the flag of the [thirteen] United States...thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation."185 In 1795, two stripes and two stars were added to flag to reflect the admission of... | |
 | History - 1994 - 56 pages
...Continental Congress at Philadelphia on June 14, 1777. The resolution read: "Resolved, that the flag of the United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and...blue field representing a new constellation. " The resolution gave no instruction as to how many points the stars should have, nor how the stars should... | |
 | New England Historic Genealogical Society - History - 1995 - 486 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 stripes, alternate red and white ;_ that the union be thirteen stare, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation." J. w.... | |
 | John K. Roth - History - 1997 - 294 pages
...by the Continental Congress on June 14, 1777. It specified that the flag of the United States should be "thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that...in a blue field, representing a new constellation." A century later, Congress called for public displays on June 14, 1877, to commemorate the flag's one-hundredth... | |
 | Flags - 1998 - 56 pages
...Continental Congress at Philadelphia on June 14, 1777. The resolution read: "Resolved, that the flag of the United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and...blue field representing a new constellation. " The resolution gave no instruction as to how many points the stars should have, nor how the stars should... | |
 | John W. Warner - 2000 - 56 pages
...Continental Congress at Philadelphia on June 14, 1777. The resolution read: "Resolved, that the flag of the United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and...blue field representing a new constellation. " The resolution gave no instruction as to how many points the stars should have, nor how the stars should... | |
 | 1998 - 184 pages
...passed the following resolution; "Resolved, that the flag of the thirteen United States be thir teen stripes alternate red and -white; that the union be...in a blue field, representing a new constellation. " This flag received its first salute from another country on Feb. 14, 1778, when French vessels in... | |
 | Lincoln P. Paine - History - 2000 - 292 pages
...master of the newly built ship Ranger on June 14, 1777. (On the same date, coincidentally, Congress also resolved "that the flag of the thirteen United States...a blue field, representing a new constellation.") Ranger sailed for France on November 1 and arrived at Nantes on December 2, having taken two English... | |
 | Richard M Battistoni - Law - 2000 - 198 pages
...Boston. By June 14, 1777, after we declared our independence from England, the Continental Congress resolved: That the flag of the thirteen United States...in a blue field, representing a new constellation. 8 Journal of the Continental Congress 1774-1789, p. 464 (W. Ford ed.1907). One immediate result of... | |
 | Elizabeth M. Jeep - Children - 2000 - 132 pages
...introduced a resolution to the Continental Congress: "that the flag of the thirteen United States shall be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white on a blue field, representing a new constellation." Today we remember Saint Germaine Cousin, who was... | |
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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. 
