 | Richard M Battistoni - 2000 - 198 pages
...Continental Congress resolved: 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. 8 Journal of the Continental Congress 1774-1789, p. 464 (W. Ford ed.1907). One immediate result of... | |
 | 2001 - 56 pages
...1777. The resolution read: "Resolved, that the flag of the United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white...in a blue field representing a new constellation. " The resolution gave no instruction as to how many points the stars should have, nor how the stars... | |
 | Walter Berns - 2002 - 164 pages
...Continental Congress resolved 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," which is to say, a new and different kind of country. Congress later declared the "Star-Spangled Banner"... | |
 | Michael Corcoran - 2007 - 218 pages
...recognized symbol: "Resolved, 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." The resolution was passed without a shred of romance; angels did not appear over Philadelphia blowing... | |
 | James C. Bradford - 2001 - 132 pages
...two resolutions: Resolved, 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. . . . On lune I4, I777. Congress passed the above resolutions giving lohn Paul lones command of the... | |
 | United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Printing - 2003 - 56 pages
...1777. The resolution read: "Resolved, that the flag of the United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white...in a blue field representing a new constellation. " The resolution gave no instruction as to how many points the stars should have, nor how the stars... | |
 | George Michael Cohan - 2003 - 28 pages
...first flag act: "Resolved, That the flag of the United States be made of thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white...in a blue field, representing a new Constellation/' The Flag Act of 1818 provided for 13 stripes and one star for each state. The flag kept changing as... | |
 | Vincent Virga, Alan Brinkley - 2004 - 428 pages
...1777, when it resolved: "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." "I ,n-al joy in ramp." Uilliam (Hark wrote in November irto-. in the diary In- and Meriwelher Lewis:... | |
 | Maryann Zihala - 2005 - 234 pages
...Continental Congress resolved: "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." One immediate result of the flag's adoption was that American vessels harassing British shipping sailed... | |
 | Debra Hess - 2005 - 44 pages
...a resolution that read: Resolved: that the flag of the United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars white...in a blue field, representing a new constellation. Did You Know? White is the color of purity and innocence. Red is the color of hardiness and valor.... | |
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Resolved, 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. 
