 | William James - 1826 - 606 sivua
...United States should be 13 stripes, 2n2 1799. alternate red and white ; and that the union should '-v~' be 13 stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation. On the 28th of October, 1779, congress established a board of admiralty, to consist of five commissioners... | |
 | George Palmer Putnam - 1853 - 776 sivua
...14th June, in the succeeding year, the American Congress '• Resolved, that the flag of the 13 Unit3d States be 13 stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be 13 stars, white, on a blue field — representing ' a new constellation.' " A new " star-spangled banner" made its appearance... | |
 | Joel Munsell - 1858 - 542 sivua
...bay and open the intercourse with Boston. 1777. Congress resolved that their flag should consist of 13 stripes alternate red and white ; that the union be 13 stars, white on a blue field, representing a new constellation. 1787. ABDULWAHLAB, an Arabian reformer, and founder... | |
 | William Thomas Roberts Saffell - 1864 - 142 sivua
...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.'...emanated from John Adams, who was then chairman of the hoard of war ; and it has also been urged with considerable plausibility, that the stars and stripes... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1874 - 872 sivua
...were retained in the flag until the following year. Congress resolved on June 14, 1777, "that the flng of the 13 United States be 13 stripes alternate red...in a blue field, representing a new constellation." This is the first recorded legislative action for the adoption of a national flag. The resolution was... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1874 - 1324 sivua
...the following year. Congress resolved on June 14, 1777, "that the flag of the 13 United States be 18 stripes alternate red and white ; that the union be...13 stars, white in a blue field, representing a new consteUation." This is the first recorded legislative action for the adoption of a national flag. The... | |
 | 1877 - 994 sivua
...United States be 1 3 stripes alternate red and white ; that the union" (ie, the canton of the flag) "be 13 stars white in a blue field representing a new constellation." The resolution next preceding that quoted above is as follows: "Resolved, That the Marine Committee... | |
 | George Henry Preble - 1880 - 890 sivua
...change it for a worse. I wish them no UL' " — Duulop's History of the Arts of Design in America. and white ; that the union be 13 stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation." 1 This resolve was printed in the papers in August, but was not officially promulgated over the signature... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1883 - 904 sivua
...inappropriate, but they were re' tuined in the flag until the following year. Congress resolved on June 14, 1777, "that the flag of the 13 United States...in a blue field, representing a new constellation." This is the first recorded legislative action for the adoption of a national ting. The resolution was... | |
 | Joseph Haydn - 1883 - 838 sivua
...Idem. The earliest legislation concerning the United States flag was a resolution of congress, 14 June, 1777, "that the flag of the 13 United States be 13...union be 13 stars, white in a blue field, representing the new constellation." This flag was lirst raised by Paul Jones on the Ranger. In 1794 it was resolved... | |
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the Flag of the United States be 13 stripes alternate red and white, that the Union be 13 stars white in a blue field representing a new constellation. 
