| Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1875 - 868 pages
...and a tenth. THE AMERICAN FLAG. A resolution was introduced in the American Congress, June 13, 1777, "That the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen...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,... | |
| 1875 - 160 pages
...resolved, on June 14, 1777, " that the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white ; that the union be thirteen stars,...in a blue field, representing a new constellation." — Anpletons1 American Cyclopcedia. LORD EDWARD FITZGERALD. AMONG the many who have laid down their... | |
| GEORGE BANCROFT. - 1875 - 518 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... | |
| Elbridge Henry Goss - 1876 - 68 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." Since the day this resolution was adopted, great and wonderful changes have taken place in our nation's... | |
| George Bancroft - 1876 - 650 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,...in a blue field, representing a new constellation." The fortitude of Washington in his camp at Middlebrook was the salvation of that flag. The guard of... | |
| Frank Moore - 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... | |
| Edward Howland - 1877 - 858 pages
...it was proposed to build, if such protection could be secured. 1777, JUNE 14. — Congress voted, " That the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen...in a blue field, representing a new constellation." This order was not promulgated until September. With the new order of things a new commerce had opened... | |
| Edward Howland - 1877 - 848 pages
...hundred men to guard a salt-work it was proposed to build, if such protection could be secured. teen United States be thirteen stripes, alternately red...in a blue field, representing a new constellation." This order was not promulgated until September. With the new order of things a new commerce had opened... | |
| 1877 - 508 pages
...congress passed the resolve : " That the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white ; that the union be thirteen stars,...in a blue field, representing a new constellation." JWD RECENT PUBLICATIONS, Presented to the New-England Historic, Genealogical Society to June 1, 1877.... | |
| Schuyler Hamilton - 1877 - 60 pages
...the 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." Paul Jones, in command of the Ranger, demanded and received from the French Admiral in Quiberon Bay,... | |
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