 | 1874 - 226 páginas
...defiance to cruelty and oppression. 4- On the fourteenth day of June, 1777, it was resolved by Congress, "That the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white, and that the Union be thirteen white stars in the blue field." This resolution was made public September... | |
 | 1874 - 802 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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...thirteen stars white in a blue field, representing a new constellation." The immovable fortitude of Washington in his camp at Middlebrook was the salvation... | |
 | 1875 - 160 páginas
...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...thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation." — Anpletons1 American Cyclopcedia. LORD EDWARD FITZGERALD. AMONG the many who have... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1875 - 868 páginas
...Congress, June 13, 1777, "That the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternately red and white ; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation." There is a striking coincidence between the design of our flag and the arms of Greneral... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1875 - 408 páginas
...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... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1876 - 650 páginas
...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...thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation." The fortitude of Washington in his camp at Middlebrook was the salvation of that flag.... | |
 | Elbridge Henry Goss - 1876 - 58 páginas
...Congress adopted, as our national banner, the stars and stripes in the following resolution : — ' ' Resolved, That the flag of the thirteen United States...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... | |
 | Frank Moore - 1876 - 1230 páginas
...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... | |
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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. 
