| George Bancroft - 1866 - 544 pages
...other, 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." The immovable fortitude of Washington in his camp at Middlebrook was the salvation of that beautiful... | |
| 1866 - 278 pages
...resolution: " 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." A constellation, however, could not well be represented on a flag, and so it was changed into a circle... | |
| Grand Army of the Republic - 1907 - 446 pages
...beyond the Pacific Sea; and inhabited by nearly ninety millions of people, who speak a common language. Union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation." The design of this flag is credited to George Washington, and in part was taken from his family coat... | |
| Congregationalist and Herald of Gospel Liberty - 1867 - 542 pages
...upper left-hand corner, to take the place of the now incongruous crosses of St. George and St. Andrew] be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation." Colonel Trumbull represents this new national flag as used at the surrender of Burgoyne, 17th October,... | |
| 1868 - 422 pages
...resolution : " Resol/oed, That the flag of the thirteen 'United States be thirteen Btripes, alternate red and -white, that the union be thirteen stars,...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 - 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... | |
| Erastus Buck Treat - 1872 - 386 pages
...resolution: " 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." 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
...resolution : " 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." A constellation, however, could not well be represented on a flag, and so it wa3 changed into a circle... | |
| George Henry Preble - 1872 - 578 pages
...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." 2 This is the first and only legislative action, of which there is any record for the establishment... | |
| Mary Mapes Dodge - 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... | |
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