Here's our love to you, flag of the free and flag of the tried and true;
Here's our love to your streaming stripes and your stars in a field of blue;
Native or foreign, we're children all of the land over which you fly,
And native or foreign, we love the land for which it were sweet to die.
On June 14, 1777, in old Independence Hall, Philadelphia, Congress adopted 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 in a blue field, representing a new constellation, the stars to be arranged in a circle.
It was thirty-seven years before the Song to Immortality, the name of our Star Spangled Banner, was written.
[END OF THE REVOLUTION.]
By Rev. Thomas B. Gregory.
The last battle of the Revolutionary war was fought at Blue Lick, Kentucky, August 20, 1782.
England died hard, and in ways that were far from being in strict keeping with international law tried to postpone the final surrender as long as she could. It was in consequence of such tactics that the battle of Blue Lick was fought.