 | 1874 - 804 str.
...were struck out ; on that day Congress " resolved that the flag of the thirteen United States should be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white ; that the Union .be thirteen stars, white ou a blue field, representing a new constellation." The heraldry was original, but the idea was excellent,... | |
 | 1874 - 802 str.
...were struck ont; on that day Congress "resolved that the flag of the thirteen United States should be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the Union be thirteen stars, whita on a blue field, representing a new constellation." The heraldry was original, but the idea was... | |
 | Bunker Hill Monument Association - 1874 - 822 str.
...cruelty and oppression. On the fourteenth day of June, 1777, it was resolved by Congress, " that the Hag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white, and that the union be thirteen white stars in a blue field." This resolution was made public, Sept.... | |
 | GEORGE BANCROFT. - 1875 - 518 str.
...Saturday the fourteenth of June, about the hour when the two armies first confronted each other, congress "resolved that the flag of the thirteen United States...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... | |
 | 1875 - 160 str.
...but they were retained in the flag until the following year. Congress resolved, on June 14, 1777, " that the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen...and white ; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation." — Anpletons1 American Cyclopcedia. LORD EDWARD... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1875 - 408 str.
...American troops into Boston when the royal troops marched out ; but Congress voted, June 17, 1777, "that the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white, and the union be thirteen white stars in the blue field." The first person to hoist this new flag over... | |
 | Elbridge Henry Goss - 1876 - 58 str.
...Congress adopted, as our national banner, the stars and stripes in the following resolution : — ' ' Resolved, That the flag of the thirteen United States...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... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1876 - 650 str.
...On the fourteenth, about the hour June u. when the two armies first confronted each other, congress "resolved that the flag of the thirteen United States...and white ; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation." The fortitude of Washington in his camp at Middlebrook... | |
 | Schuyler Hamilton - 1877 - 60 str.
...before stated, continued to be used until June 14, 1777, just one hundred years ago, when the Congress " Resolved, That the Flag of the Thirteen United States...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... | |
 | Michigan. Adjutant-General's Department - 1877 - 128 str.
...coin, follows that of England, having six points. On the 14th of June, 1777, the American Congress " Resolved, That the flag of the thirteen United States...and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation." This is the first and only legislative action,... | |
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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. 
