| 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...in a blue field, representing a new constellation." [June 20.] " Resolved, That a corps or invalids be formed, consisting of eight companies, each conipany... | |
| 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...in a blue field, representing a new constellation." [June 20.] " Resolved, That a corps ofinvalids be formed, consisting of eight companies, cachcocApany... | |
| 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...in a blue field, representing a new constellation. The council of Massachusetts-Bay having represented by letter to the president of Congress, that captain... | |
| 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...in a blue field, representing a new constellation. His Excellency General Washington, at his quarters in the Jerseys, has published a manifesto in answer... | |
| 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...in a blue field, representing a new constellation. Resolved, That Captain John Paul Jones be appointed to command the ship Ranger. Resolved, That William... | |
| 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...in a blue field, representing a new constellation.* CHAPTER VI. In Congress — June 1 8, 1 777. mamii Resolved, That a general officer commanding a sepamcm^STact... | |
| 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...in a blue field, representing a new constellation. Resolved, That Captain John Paul Jones be appointed to command the ship Ranger. Resolved, That William... | |
| 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...in a blue field, representing a new constellation. His Excellency General Washington, at his quarters in the Jerseys, has published a manifesto in answer... | |
| 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...in a blue field, representing a new constellation. Congress elected five major generals : lord Stirling, Thomas Mifflin, Arthur St. Clair, Adam Stephen,... | |
| John Paul Jones - History - 1830 - 578 pages
...of letters from him. On the 14th June, Congress resolved, "that the flag of the United States should be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white: that...in a blue field, representing a new constellation." By another resolution, passed the same day, Jones was appointed to command the ship Ranger; on board... | |
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