 | George Bancroft - 1866 - 520 páginas
...fourteenth of June, about the hour when the two armies first confronted each other, congress "resolved that the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen...in a blue field, representing a new constellation." The. immovable fortitude of Washington in his camp at Middlebrook was the salvation of that beautiful... | |
 | GEORGE BANCROFT - 1866 - 518 páginas
...fourteenth of June, about the hour when the two armies first confronted each other, congress "resolved that the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen...in a blue field, representing a new constellation." The immovable fortitude of Washington in his camp at Middlebrook was the salvation of that beautiful... | |
 | 1866 - 288 páginas
...army. But in 1777, Congress, on the 19th day of June, passed the following resolution : " IZesolved, That the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen...in a blue field, representing a new constellation." A constellation, however, could not well be represented on a flag, and so it was changed into a circle... | |
 | Grand Army of the Republic - 1907 - 446 páginas
...beyond the Pacific Sea; and inhabited by nearly ninety millions of people, who speak a common language. Union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation." The design of this flag is credited to George Washington, and in part was taken from his family coat... | |
 | Congregationalist and Herald of Gospel Liberty - 1867 - 542 páginas
...upper left-hand corner, to take the place of the now incongruous crosses of St. George and St. Andrew] be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation." Colonel Trumbull represents this new national flag as used at the surrender of Burgoyne, 17th October,... | |
 | 1868 - 422 páginas
...following resolution : " Resol/oed, That the flag of the thirteen 'United States be thirteen Btripes, alternate red and -white, that the union be thirteen...in a blue field, representing a new constellation." A constellation, however, could not well be represented on a flag, and so it was changed into a circle... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - 1869 - 856 páginas
...Congress June 14, 1777, thus providing a snbBtitute for the crosses of St. George and St. Andrews, that — "the Union be thirteen stars, white in a Blue Field — representing a new eonttellation." tion was established, such to be the true political condition. " The UNION and INDEPENDENCE... | |
 | Erastus Buck Treat - 1872 - 386 páginas
...army. But in 1777, Congress, on the 19th day of June, passed the following resolution: " Resolved, That the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen...in a blue field, representing a new constellation." A constellation, however, could not well be represented on a flag, and so it was changed into a circle... | |
 | Erastus Buck Treat - 1872 - 404 páginas
...army. But in 1777, Congress, on the 19th day of June, passed the following resolution : " Resolved, That the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen...in a blue field, representing a new constellation." A constellation, however, could not well be represented on a flag, and so it wa3 changed into a circle... | |
 | George Henry Preble - 1872 - 578 páginas
...RESOLVED, That the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes alternate red and whste : that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation." 2 This is the first and only legislative action, of which there is any record for the establishment... | |
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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. 
