. North Dakota history and people; outlines of American history. fourteen feet square and sevenfeet high, with plank ceiling, and the roof slanting so as to form a loft above therooms, the highest part of which was eighteen feet above the ground. The bodyof the huts formed a wall of that height. Opposite the angle the place of thewall was supplied by picketing, and in the rear were two rooms for stores andprovisions. The American flag was raised over Fort Mandan for the first timeDecember 25, 1804, and this was probably the first time that the flag floated inNorth Dakota. THE FLAG ON FORT MAND
. North Dakota history and people; outlines of American history. fourteen feet square and sevenfeet high, with plank ceiling, and the roof slanting so as to form a loft above therooms, the highest part of which was eighteen feet above the ground. The bodyof the huts formed a wall of that height. Opposite the angle the place of thewall was supplied by picketing, and in the rear were two rooms for stores andprovisions. The American flag was raised over Fort Mandan for the first timeDecember 25, 1804, and this was probably the first time that the flag floated inNorth Dakota. THE FLAG ON FORT MANDAN The flag raised by Lewis and Clark over Fort Mandan was the flag adoptedby the United States Congress January 13, 1794, with fifteen stripes and fifteenstars, instead of the original thirteen stripes and thirteen stars provided by theact of June 14, 1777. Congress first met in Washington November 17, 1800,and Ohio, the seventeenth state, was the first one to be admitted in Washingtonand bears the date April 30. 1802. After that there were no states admitted. A MANDAN VILLAGEFrom a painting by Charles Bodmer from Travels to the Interior of North America in1833-3-4, by Maximilian, Prince of Wied, 1843.
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