 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.  The Railway Conductor - Стр. 4521909Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | GEORGE BANCROFT. - 1875 - Страниц: 518
...On Saturday the fourteenth of June, about the hour when the two armies first confronted each other, congress "resolved that the flag of the thirteen United...in a blue field, representing a new constellation." The immovable fortitude of Washington in his camp at Middlebrook was the salvation of that beautiful... | |
 | 1875 - Страниц: 160
...but they were retained in the flag until the following year. Congress resolved, on June 14, 1777, " that the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen...in a blue field, representing a new constellation." — Anpletons1 American Cyclopcedia. LORD EDWARD FITZGERALD. AMONG the many who have laid down their... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1875 - Страниц: 868
...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,... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1875 - Страниц: 408
...American troops into Boston when the royal troops marched out ; but Congress voted, June 17, 1777, "that the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white, and the union be thirteen white stars in the blue field." The first person to hoist this new flag over... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1876 - Страниц: 650
...battle-field. On the fourteenth, about the hour June u. when the two armies first confronted each other, congress "resolved that the flag of the thirteen United...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... | |
 | Elbridge Henry Goss - 1876 - Страниц: 58
...Congress adopted, as our national banner, the stars and stripes in the following resolution : — ' ' Resolved, That the flag of the thirteen United States...in a blue field, representing a new constellation." Since the day this resolution was adopted, great and wonderful changes have taken place in our nation's... | |
 | Frank Moore - 1876 - Страниц: 1230
...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... | |
 | Society of the Army of the Tennessee - 1885 - Страниц: 604
...the oppressive acts of the ministerial government of the Kingdom of Great Britain." June I4th, 1777, the American Congress resolved, "That the flag of...in a blue field, representing a new constellation." April 4th, 1818, Congress passed a resolution, "That from and after the Fourth day of July next, the... | |
 | John Austin Stevens, Benjamin Franklin DeCosta, Henry Phelps Johnston, Martha Joanna Lamb, Nathan Gillett Pond - 1877 - Страниц: 838
...1776, as 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...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,... | |
 | Schuyler Hamilton - 1877 - Страниц: 60
...1776, as 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...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,... | |
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