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The first official flag of the new nation was
created by a resolution of the Continental
Congress meeting in Philadelphia on June
14, 1777. (Now Flag Day.) The resolution
specified "that the flag be 13 stripes
alternate red and white; that the union be 13
stars, white in a blue field, representing a
new constellation." Flag makers arranged
the stars in different ways, among them;
rows, in a half circle, and in a full circle. The
one adopted may have been made by Betsy
Ross and had the stars in a full circle. It has
become known as THE BETSY ROSS FLAG.
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