| William Gordon - United States - 1801 - 478 pages
...chargeable, to all the damages and ill consequences resulting from, it."* ' (June 14.] Congress " resolved, That the flag of the Thirteen United States be thirteen...and white ; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation." [June 20.] " Resolved, That a corps ofinvalids... | |
| William Gordon - United States - 1801 - 478 pages
...changeable, to all the damages and ill consequences resulting from it."* (June 14.] Congress" icsolved, That the flag of the Thirteen United States be thirteen...and white.; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation." [June 20.] " Resolved, That a corps or invalids... | |
| W. D. Cooper - Greece - 1818 - 314 pages
...equally excited the astonishment of friends and enemies. On the 14th of June, the Congress resolved, that the flag of the Thirteen United States be thirteen...alternate red and white ; that the union be thirteen start, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation. It was not till the third of September... | |
| United States. Continental Congress - United States - 1823 - 696 pages
...Delaware, as they think proper, in case the enemy succeed in their attempts on the said river. Unsolved, That the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen...and white : that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation. The council of Massachusetts-Bay having represented... | |
| James Thacher - United States - 1823 - 686 pages
...condition as prisoners of war. It appears by the papers, that Congress resolved, on the 14th of June last, that the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen...and white, that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation. His Excellency General Washington, at his quarters... | |
| United States, Trueman Cross - Military law - 1825 - 326 pages
...Congress the 14th daj of April last, notwithstanding. CHAPTER V. In Congress — June 14, 1777. Resolved, That the flag of the thirteen United States, be thirteen...and white: that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation.* CHAPTER VI. In Congress — June 1 8, 1 777. mamii... | |
| John Henry Sherburne - United States - 1825 - 374 pages
...probably the first ship that bore the national flag to Europe. IN CONGRESS, June 14th, 1777. Resolved, That the flag of the thirteen United States, be thirteen...and white : that the Union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation. Resolved, That Captain John Paul Jones be appointed... | |
| John Henry Sherburne - United States - 1825 - 400 pages
...PHILIP LIVINGSTON, BENJAMIN HARRISON, A. MIDDLETON, NICHOLAS VAN-DYKE, GEORGE WALTON. 37 Resolved, That the flag of the thirteen United States, be thirteen...and white : that the Union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation. Resolved, That Captain John Paul Jones be appointed... | |
| James Thacher - American War of Independence, 1775-1783 - 1827 - 494 pages
...condition as prisoners of war. It appears by the papers, that Congress resolved, on the 14th of June last, that the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen...and white, that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation. His Excellency General Washington, at his quarters... | |
| Abiel Holmes - America - 1829 - 606 pages
...of the United States ; " which being done," they were to " become conclusive." J Congress resolved, That the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen...and white ; that the Union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation. Congress elected five major generals : lord Stirling,... | |
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