. A junior class history of the United States; to which are added the Declaration of independence, and the Constitution of the United States .. . FLAG OF TUK UNITED STATESADOPTED IN JUNE, 1777 *. * At the beginning of tlie Revolution, and for some months afterward, no distinctiveflag was adopted by the Americans. In 1776, the British Union flag was used, the onlychange being that the field was composed of thirteen stripes, alternate red and white, todenote the union of the thirteen colonies. The American flag, ? Stars and Stripes,was adopted by Congress on the 14th of June, 1777. The thirteen
. A junior class history of the United States; to which are added the Declaration of independence, and the Constitution of the United States .. . FLAG OF TUK UNITED STATESADOPTED IN JUNE, 1777 *. * At the beginning of tlie Revolution, and for some months afterward, no distinctiveflag was adopted by the Americans. In 1776, the British Union flag was used, the onlychange being that the field was composed of thirteen stripes, alternate red and white, todenote the union of the thirteen colonies. The American flag, ? Stars and Stripes,was adopted by Congress on the 14th of June, 1777. The thirteen stars were arrangedin a circle in order better to express the union of the states. In 1794, there havingbeen two new states added to the Union, it was voted that the alternate stripes, as wellas the circling stars, be fifteen in number, and the flag, as thus altered and enlarged,was the one which was borne through all the contests of the war of 1812. But it wasthought that the flag would at length become too large if a new stripe should beadded with every new state. It was therefore enacted, in 1818, that a permanent re-turn should be made to the original number of thirteen stripes, and
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