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
| 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,... | |
| 1877 - Страниц: 508
...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 - 1877 - Страниц: 562
...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 - 1877 - Страниц: 184
...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,... | |
| Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1877 - Страниц: 396
...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... | |
| Edward D. Farrell - 1877 - Страниц: 228
...be your aim, virtue still enters for a. principal share into all those great departments of society. Resolved, that the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternately red and white ; that the Union be thirteen stars, white in ti blue field, representing... | |
| david clapp - 1877 - Страниц: 496
...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 stripes, alternate rod and white; that the uniun be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation."... | |
| George Bancroft - 1878 - Страниц: 648
...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... | |
| George Stillman Hillard - 1878 - Страниц: 400
...defiance to cruelty and opposition. 4. On the 14th day of June, 1776, it was resolved by Congress, " That the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white, and that the Union be thirteen white stars in the blue field." This resolution was made public September... | |
| John Jacob Anderson - 1878 - Страниц: 450
...defiance to cruelty and opposition. 5. On the 14th day of June, 1777, it was resolved by Congress, "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." This resolution was made public September... | |
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