Show the alar spa ing led to 4 e r f e let t rise lek lck it t rise till tid it meet the sun in hi s coming let the earliest light of I 1 the morning bornino gild it and the parting day dag ling linger er and on its su summit m m it bab 11 4 ablo 1 W t 1 U to many his torann there were several cere monea cele ing the ilie first anniversary of american on july 4 1777 says bays the r detroit news vie ine records allow that at noon on oa that day tho armed ships and galleys in the Dela delamore wore river at flew the colors of the baates on the same bama day a 12 flag beo bee was held by tte ile young ladles adles of portsmouth N 11 II who with much patriotic enthusiasm and many heart thrills wrought out of their own on and their mothers gowns a beautiful star spangled ranner banner this coincides with a report that the 11 ie stars and stripes were hoisted aloft a oft on the vessel raleigh in ports mouth harbor on that date it was more than eara cars ago that colonel gansevoort and aad hid lit tie command of men wore were defending fort near ent eat site of rome home N Y they had just heard that congress had bad passed a solution resolution r e authorizing autho rising the use of the stars stare and stripes they had no flag of the new pat tern the garrison haq ransacked for material they could fashion into the new design A blue cloth coat was mas offered by captain to form the blue union A soldiers wife donated a red petticoat for or the red stripe and the soldiers ripped their ammunition shirts to supply the white stripes it was wa bot a handsome banner but it thrilled the hearts of its makers as they placed it on a bastion near est eat to the attacking british and al a lied troops this la Is the farst time so fur far as the available records show that the stars and stripes were actually dis played placed before a hostile and threatening eril ng enemy august 8 3 tile the official birthday 0 of the start stars and stripes was june 14 1777 when the continental congreso con gresi passel passed a resolution that the flag of the 13 3 united states be 13 stripes alternate red and white that the union be 13 stars white in a blue field representing a now new constellation nearly six elc months before ta adoption of the iha lag flag by congress george ceorge washington crossed the del an ire and captured 1000 hessians la in his brilliant attack on trenton artists of the time showed the father bather of our country crossing the river ln in a boat displaying the tha familiar design of the stars and stripes apart from this doubtful evidence which may have in the artists art lets imagination there la Is nothing to piove giove that the tha and stripes was mas in use at this time many theories ca as to the truo origin of our national flag have been advanced none of which have been definitely proved probed some believe it to la an adoption of the coat of the washington family which contains both stars ond end stripes others credit betsy rose rosa with the creation of the design others maintain the ide fidei for the flag came from the netherlands the fact that francis hopkinson one of the signers of the declara tion of independence submitted a bill to congress in 1779 for the designing of the flag of the united states of america lends color to the belief that he was its creator the united states flag fing has had 48 stars only since july 1 1012 1912 the tha independence day following the nd ad mission of the last two states new mexico and arizona |