Our flag, its history and changes from 1607 to 1910 (1910)
Champion, Sarah E. (Sarah Elizabeth), b. 1832 · New Haven, Conn., The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co. · leaf 32
me now to the time when the crosses of St. George andSt. Andrew were taken from the striped Union flag, and a blue field withwhite stars substituted for the symbol of English authority. Thirteen states had bound themselves together (Declaration of Inde-pendence signed July 4, 1776) as the United… … If they were to be a free and independent nation they must have aflag to represent it. Accordingly, one hundred and thirty-three years agothis June 14th (1910) the American Congress in session at Philadelphiaresolved, that the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes,alternate red and…
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