 | John Frost - 1851 - 1058 pàgines
...flag of the United States should be thirteen stripes, one for each state, and that the union thirteen stars, white, in a blue field ; representing a new constellation. On the 29th of October, on account of his ill health, Mr. Hancock took leave of Congress, having presided... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1862 - 874 pàgines
...1777, " that the flag of the 13 United States be 13 stripes, alternate red and white ; that the union be 13 stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation." It is not known precisely to whom is due the credit of suggesting the stars for the union. The idea... | |
 | American cyclopaedia - 1862 - 878 pàgines
...1777, "that the flag of the 13 United States be 13 stripes, alternate red and white ; that the union be 13 stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation." It is not known precisely to whom is due the credit of suggesting the stars for the union. The idea... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1874 - 872 pàgines
...1777, "that the flng of the 13 United States be 13 stripes alternate red and white ; that the union be 13 stars, white 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... | |
 | 1877 - 994 pàgines
...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 - 892 pàgines
...wish them no ill.' " — Dunlops 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... | |
 | Elizabeth Bryant Johnston - 1895 - 268 pàgines
...resolution : " That the flag of the 13 United States be 13 stripes, alternate red and white ; that the Union be 13 stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation," which unanimously passed that body; and by this act established our national emblem. The thirteen alternate... | |
 | United States. President, James Daniel Richardson - 1897 - 712 pàgines
..."Reso/red, That 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." The stars (or mullets, heraldically speaking) arcs-pointed. They are arranged in a rectangular diagram.... | |
 | Confederate States of America. President - 1905 - 684 pàgines
...provided, "That 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." As a new State was admitted, a new star and stripe were added. The flag was thus increased in si/.e... | |
 | United States. President, James Daniel Richardson - 1907 - 778 pàgines
..."Kesolved. That the flag of the I'nited Stales be П stripes, allernale red and white; that the union be 13 stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation." The banner of the United States is commonly supposed to have been based upon the \\ ashinglon coat-of-anns.... | |
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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. 
