 | Mary Mapes Dodge - 1917 - 592 pagine
...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... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1875 - 868 pagine
...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 pagine
...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 pagine
...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 pagine
...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 pagine
...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 pagine
...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 pagine
...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 pagine
...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... | |
 | John Austin Stevens, Benjamin Franklin DeCosta, Henry Phelps Johnston, Martha Joanna Lamb, Nathan Gillett Pond - 1877 - 838 pagine
...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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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. 
