Our country's flag and the flags of foreign countries (1898)
Holden, Edward Singleton, 1846-1914 · New York : D. Appleton and company · leaf 60
m. On this 4thof July the nation was born. Its flag, thevisible symbol of its power, was not adoptedtill 1777. On the 14th of June, 1777, Congress re-solved that the flag of the thirteen UnitedStates be thirteen stripes, alternate red andwhite; that the union be thirteen stars, 28 THE UNITED STATES… … Fig. 9.—The flag of the United States of America. 1777-1795. flag; of the United Colonics had thirteenstripes, one for each colony, and the stripeswere alternate red and white. This part ofthe old flag remained unchanged in the newone. Each colony retained its stripe. The flag of the colonies, in…
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