 | George Henry Preble - Navy-yards and naval stations - 1892 - 244 pages
...resolutions: IN CONGRESS, June 14, 1777. Resoh.ed, That the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white ; that the union...in a blue field, representing a new constellation. « Resolced, That Captain John Panl Jones be appointed to command the Ranger, ship of war. Rrsoleed,... | |
 | Questions and answers - 1892 - 414 pages
...June, 1777, " Resolved 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." As to the origin of the combination, and who first suggested the idea, some have supposed that it might... | |
 | Questions and answers - 1892 - 412 pages
...June, 1777, " Resolved 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." As to the origin of the combination, and who first suggested the idea, some have supposed that it might... | |
 | Edgar Stanton Maclay - 1893 - 662 pages
...14th of June, 1777, Congress resolved "that the flag of the thirteen United States shall be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white ; that the union...in a blue field, representing a new constellation." The design of this flag, the thirteen stripes representing the original thirteen colonies, and a star... | |
 | United States - 1893 - 538 pages
...June 14, 1777, was the recommendation — "That the, flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white ; that the union...in a blue field, representing a new constellation." The report was adopted unanimously, and a sample flag of silk was prepared for Congress. The number... | |
 | Mary Mapes Dodge - Children's literature - 1893 - 984 pages
...field of blue. This act read as follows : " Resolved, That the flag of the United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white : that the union...in a blue field, representing a new constellation." NUMBER 239 ARCH STREET, PHILADELPHIA — THE HOUSE IN WHICH THE FIRST " STARS AND STRIPES " WAS MADE.... | |
 | United States. Naval History Division - Government publications - 1986 - 1182 pages
...their attempts on the said river. Resolved, That the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white: that the union be...in a blue field, representing a new constellation. The council of the State of Massachusetts bay having represented by letter to the president of Congress,... | |
 | United States - 1986 - 488 pages
...cause of independence. The delegates voted "that the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be...in a blue field representing a new constellation." After more than two centuries, with the addition of thirty-seven stars, each representing one of our... | |
 | Fort Stanwix (Rome, N.Y.) - 1976 - 220 pages
...following item: "In Congress, June 14, 1777. Resolved That the FLAG of the United States be THIRTEEN STRIPES alternate red and white; that the union be THIRTEEN STARS white in a blue field. Extract from minutes, CHARLES THOMSON, sec." 7 Other papers printed the resolution from September 3... | |
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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. 
