On this day in 1777, an American flag flew in battle for ... as the “Stars and Stripes,” was based on the “Grand Union” flag – a banner carried by the Continental Army in 1776 that ...

1777. The resolution read: “Resolved, that the flag of the United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field representing a new ...

1777: “Resolved, that the Flag of the thirteen United States shall be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the Union be thirteen stars, white on a blue field, representing a new ...

But today, all that is known is that on June 14, 1777. the Philadelphia Congress resolved that “. . . the flag of the United States be 13 stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be 13 ...

1777, passed an act that established an official flag. The act read: “Resolved, that the flag of the United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars ...

Until the Executive Order of June 24, 1912, neither the order of the stars nor the proportions of the flag was prescribed. Consequently, flags dating before this period sometimes show unusual ...

on the 100th anniversary of the Flag Resolution of 1777. However, it is believed that the first annual recognition of the flag's birthday dates to 1885 when schoolteacher BJ Cigrand organized a ...

President Woodrow Wilson issued a proclamation establishing June 14 as Flag Day in May 1916 to honor June 14, 1777, when the national ... white,” and that “the union be 13 stars, white in ...