 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1860 - 802 pages
...1777. On the 14th of June that year, Congress " resolved that the flag of the thirteen United States bo thirteen stripes, alternate red and white ; that the...in a blue field, representing a new constellation." Since then we have added a star for every new state. 4 Tradition assorts that, while the Americans... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - Literature - 1860 - 538 pages
...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 General Washington,... | |
 | Frank Moore - United States - 1860 - 576 pages
...Ledger, October 29. " Upoott, v. 85. ' Same, v. 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... | |
 | Frank Moore - United States - 1860 - 572 pages
...day resolved that the flag of the United States 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... | |
 | John Russell Bartlett - Americanisms - 1860 - 570 pages
...words : "Resolved, — That the flag of the thirteen United Colonies be thirteen stripes, alternately red and white ; that the Union be thirteen stars, white in a blne field, representing a new constellation." It has been thonght that the arms of Washington may... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1862 - 874 pages
...that the flag of the 13 United States be 13 stripes, alternate red and white ; that the union be 13 stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation."...emanated from John Adams, who was then chairman of the board of war ; and it has also been urged with considerable plausibility that the stars and stripes... | |
 | American cyclopaedia - 1862 - 878 pages
..."that the flag of the 13 United States be 13 stripes, alternate red and white ; that the union be 13 stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation."...emanated from John Adams, who was then chairman of the board of war ; and it has also been urged with considerable plausibility that the stars and stripes... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1862 - 582 pages
...used by Admiral Saunders at Quebec in 1759. On the 14th of June, 1777, it was resolved by Congress " That the flag of the Thirteen United States be thirteen...in a blue field, representing a new constellation." This resolution was not made public until the following September. Relative to the early New England... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1862 - 894 pages
...''that the flag of the 13 United States be 13 stripes, alternate red and white ; that the union be 13 stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation." It is not known precisely to whom is due tho credit of suggesting the stars for the union. The idea is supposed to have emanated from John Adams,... | |
 | John F. Callan, United States - Military law - 1863 - 912 pages
...June 14, 1777. Ertntftd, That the flag of the thirteen United States, be thirteen stripes, altTnate red and white : that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue representing a new constellation.' IN CONGRESS — June 18, 1777. , That a general officer commanding... | |
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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. 
