Footnote 23: The reader will detect many errors in this and the following French letters. The originals are copied exactly in each case.[(Back)]
Footnote 24: These were Messrs. l'abbé Barthélémy, l'abbé Garnier, l'abbé Le Blond, l'abbé Brotier, de Vauvillier, Dupuis, and D. Poirier.[(Back)]
Footnote 25: The accepted legend.[(Back)]
Footnote 26: ℞. Abbreviation of REVERSE.[(Back)]
Footnote 27: See Introduction, pages [x], [xi], [xiii], [xvi], [xxiii], [xxv], [xxviii]; B, [xxxvi]; G, [xlv]; and H, [xlvii].[(Back)]
Footnote 28: The members chosen were Mr. J. Adams, Mr. Jay, and Mr. Hopkins.[(Back)]
Footnote 29: The "stars and stripes." Congress passed, June 14, 1777, the following resolution:
Resolved, That the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white on a blue field, representing a new constellation.
And it was to this new American flag that General Burgoyne surrendered.
Congress changed the flag by the following act, which was approved January 13, 1794: