| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1871 - 536 halaman
...stated. The resolution was in these words: " 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." 4. For nearly a year before the surrender of Burgoyne,... | |
| Erastus Buck Treat - 1872 - 386 halaman
...June, passed the following resolution : " Resolved, That the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white, that the...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... | |
| 1874 - 902 halaman
...were struck out; 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, white on a blue field, representing a new constellation." The heraldry was original, but the idea was excellent,... | |
| GEORGE BANCROFT. - 1875 - 518 halaman
...armies first confronted each other, congress "resolved that the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white ; that the...in a blue field, representing a new constellation." The immovable fortitude of Washington in his camp at Middlebrook was the salvation of that beautiful... | |
| Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1875 - 868 halaman
...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,...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,... | |
| Frank Moore - 1876 - 1230 halaman
...Ledger, 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... | |
| Frederic Marshall - 1875 - 380 halaman
...were struck out; 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, white on a blue field, representing a new constellation." The heraldry was original, but the idea was excellent,... | |
| Frederic Marshall - 1875 - 380 halaman
...struck out ; 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, white on a blue field, representing a new constellation." The heraldry was original, but the idea was excellent,... | |
| JAS D. McCABE, Jr - 1870 - 1248 halaman
...national On the 14th of June 1777 Congress ordered «that the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes' alternate red and white ; that the...in a blue field representing a new constellation." The design is supposed to have been suggested by John Adams, who was then Chairman of the Board of... | |
| George Bancroft - 1876 - 650 halaman
...armies first confronted each other, congress " resolved that the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white ; that the...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... | |
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