VCE+History+-+The+American+Revolution

Betsy Ross or "First Stars & Stripes"
This flag was adopted June 14, 1777 (Flag Day). The [|Continental Congress] on this day resolved, "That the flag of the United States be thirteen stripes alternating red and white; that the Union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation". It is unknown who actually designed this flag. [|There is a slight possibility that John Paul Jones did]. The Congress did not specify an arrangement for the stars in the canton, as a result there are many variations in the flags that followed until 1912.//(//[|////http://americanrevwar.homestead.com/files/flags.htm////] //), July 10 2009)//