 | United States. Department of State - 1977 - 754 pages
...resolutions in quick succession. ". . .The flag of the United States [shall] be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white: that the union be thirteen stars, white...in a blue field, representing a new constellation." Several minutes later, they give the command of the ship RANGER to Captain John Paul Jones. In Europe,... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1990 - 208 pages
...CONTINENTAL CONGRESS DECLARED 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." FORTY-ONE YEARS LATER, IN 1818, CONGRESS PASSED A LAW ENSURING THAT EVERY STATE WOULD BE REPRESENTED... | |
 | Michael Kent Curtis - 1993 - 704 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."185 In 1795, two stripes and two stars were added to flag to reflect the admission of... | |
 | 1994 - 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... | |
 | John K. Roth - 1997 - 294 pages
...June 14, 1777. It specified that the flag of the United States should be "thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white...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... | |
 | 1998 - 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... | |
 | John W. Warner - 2000 - 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... | |
 | 1998 - 184 pages
...following resolution; "Resolved, that the flag of the thirteen United States be thir teen stripes alternate red and -white; that the union be thirteen stars,...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 - 2000 - 292 pages
...Congress also resolved "that the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white...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... | |
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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. 
