 | 1880 - 1054 pagine
...September 8 .:¿ ::.¿ !1'-. .:. ¿. .i:ipeai t..' . . . : • - ¿¿¿•-‘ ¿ pj¿fl¿¿ alternate red and white, that the union be thirteen stars, white...in a blue field, representing a new constellation. ¿‘ The new constellation which it was intended . should be represented is supposed to be Lyre, which... | |
 | George Henry Preble - 1880 - 928 pagine
...American 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." 1 Thus, full fledged, and without any debate or previous legislation, our flag was flung as a new constellation... | |
 | John Trumbull - 1881 - 334 pagine
...of June of that year : " 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 eonstellation." This Canto was written at the elose of the eontest. 'A mixed liquor, eonsisting of... | |
 | Andrew Macgeorge - 1881 - 146 pagine
...Congress resolved "that the flag of the United States be thirteen stripes alternately red and white, and that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation." (See Fig. 32.) Ill It has been said that the design of the flag was derived from arms borne by the... | |
 | Andrew Macgeorge - 1881 - 144 pagine
...Congress resolved "that the flag of the United States be thirteen stripes alternately red and white, and that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation." (See Fig. 32.) It has been said that the design of the flag was derived from arms borne by the family... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - 1882 - 454 pagine
...resolution : — BesoJveil. 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. Resolved, That Capt. Paul Jones be appointed to command the Ranger. Ship of War. &e. Jones took command,... | |
 | Michigan. Adjutant-General's Department - 1882 - 1068 pagine
...American Congress " Kesolved, 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." This is the first and only legislative action, of which there is any record, for the establishment... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - 1882 - 458 pagine
...: — Resolvei!, That the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red aud white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation. Resolved, That Capt. Paul Jones be appointed to command the Ranger. Ship of War. <fce. Jones took command,... | |
 | Henry Percy Smith - 1883 - 542 pagine
...adopted by Act of Congress, June 14, 1777 : "Resolved that the flag of the thirteen United Colonies be thirteen stripes alternately red and white ; that...in a blue field, representing a new constellation." — Bartlett's A mcricanisms. Statant. [O.Fr., from L. stare, to stand.} (ffcr.) Standing still, with... | |
 | Henry Percy Smith - 1883 - 564 pagine
...adopted by Act of Congress, June 14, 1777 : " Resolved that the flag of the thirteen United Colonies be thirteen stripes alternately red and white ; that...in a blue field, representing a new constellation." — Bartlett's Americanisms. Statant. [O.Fr., from L. stare, to stand.] (Her.) Standing stiU, with... | |
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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. 
