. Book of the Royal blue . This committee having reported, on June14, 1777, in old Independence Hall, Phila-delphia, Congress adopted the followingresolution: Resolved that the flag of thethirteen United States be thirteen stripes,alternate red and white; that the union bethirteen stars, white in a blue field, repre-senting a new constellation, the stars tobe arranged in a circle. Enter here theStar Spangled Banner, with thirty-sevenyears to wait for the song that was to im-mortalize the name. The flag was not changed until 1795, whentwo stripes and two stars were added forVermont and Kentucky
. Book of the Royal blue . This committee having reported, on June14, 1777, in old Independence Hall, Phila-delphia, Congress adopted the followingresolution: Resolved that the flag of thethirteen United States be thirteen stripes,alternate red and white; that the union bethirteen stars, white in a blue field, repre-senting a new constellation, the stars tobe arranged in a circle. Enter here theStar Spangled Banner, with thirty-sevenyears to wait for the song that was to im-mortalize the name. The flag was not changed until 1795, whentwo stripes and two stars were added forVermont and Kentucky. By 1816 four moreStates, Tennessee, Ohio, Louisiana andIndiana, were in the family, and a committeewas appointed to give them a place on theflag. Realizing that there must be a limitto the stripes, the committee made a recom-mendation which was adopted April 4, 1818,that the flag be permanently thirteen stripes,representing the thirteen original States andthat a new star be added for each State asadmitted. The plan of ar
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