 | Frank Moore - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1876 - 1230 pages
...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... | |
 | Michigan. Adjutant-General's Department - Flags - 1877 - 128 pages
...coin, follows that of England, having six points. On the 14th of June, 1777, the American Congress " Resolved, That the flag of the thirteen United States...in a blue field, representing a new constellation." This is the first and only legislative action, of which there is any record, for the establishment... | |
 | Schuyler Hamilton - Flags - 1877 - 60 pages
...before stated, continued to be used until June 14, 1777, just one hundred years ago, when the Congress " Resolved, That the Flag of the Thirteen United States...in a blue field, representing a new constellation." Paul Jones, in command of the Ranger, demanded and received from the French Admiral in Quiberon Bay,... | |
 | United States - 1877 - 640 pages
...before stated, continued to be used until June 14, 1777, just one hundred years ago, when the Congress " Resolved, That the Flag of the Thirteen United States...in a blue field, representing a new constellation." Paul Jones, in command of the Ranger, demanded and received from the French Admiral in Quiberon Bay,... | |
 | Michigan. Adjutant-General's Department - Flags - 1877 - 142 pages
...coin, follows that of England, having six points. On the 14th of June, 1777, the American Congress " Resolved, That the flag of the thirteen United States...in a blue field, representing a new constellation." This is the first and only legislative action, of which there is any record, for the establishment... | |
 | New England - 1877 - 508 pages
...device, which were used previous to June 14, 1777, when the American congress passed the resolve : " That the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen...in a blue field, representing a new constellation." JWD RECENT PUBLICATIONS, Presented to the New-England Historic, Genealogical Society to June 1, 1877.... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Slavery - 1877 - 562 pages
...By a resolution adopted 14th June, 1777, and made public 3d September, 1777, Congress determined " that the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen...in a blue field, representing a new constellation." 1 Here the crosses of St. George and St. Andrew gave place to white stars in a blue field ; the familiar... | |
 | Abner Comstock Smith - Meeker County (Minn.) - 1877 - 184 pages
...1777, Congress passed the following resolution: "RESOLVED, that the flag of the thirteen States l>e thirteen stripes, alternate red and white, that the...stars, white, in a blue field, representing a new Constitution." This resolution was made public Sept. 3d, 1777The first flag made in pursuance of it,... | |
 | Edward Howland - North America - 1877 - 858 pages
...— Congress voted, " 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." This order was not promulgated until September. With the new order of things a new commerce had opened... | |
 | Michael Kent Curtis - Law - 1993 - 704 pages
...many centuries, the American flag was born officially on June 14, 1777 when the Continental Congress resolved that "the flag of the [thirteen] United States...thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation."185 In 1795, two stripes and two stars were added to flag to reflect the admission of... | |
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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. 
