History of the Flag of the United States of America: And of the Naval and Yacht-club Signals, Seals, and Arms, and Principal National Songs of the United States, with a Chronicle of the Symbols, Standards, Banners, and Flags of Ancient and Modern NationsA. Williams, 1880 - 815 pages |
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... given me much valuable aid and information ; and I would also thank the Hon . A. R. SPOFFORD , Librarian of Congress , H. A. HOMES , LL.D. , Librarian of the New York State Library , Hon . WILLIAM A. COURTENAY , Mayor of Charleston ...
... given me much valuable aid and information ; and I would also thank the Hon . A. R. SPOFFORD , Librarian of Congress , H. A. HOMES , LL.D. , Librarian of the New York State Library , Hon . WILLIAM A. COURTENAY , Mayor of Charleston ...
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... given me their assistance , will please accept my silent acknowledgments . In 1864 , the manuscript of this book , in its then incom- plete state , was forwarded from Lisbon , Portugal , to the managers of the National Sailors ' Fair at ...
... given me their assistance , will please accept my silent acknowledgments . In 1864 , the manuscript of this book , in its then incom- plete state , was forwarded from Lisbon , Portugal , to the managers of the National Sailors ' Fair at ...
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... given me much valuable aid and information ; and I would also thank the Hon . A. R. SPOFFORD , Librarian of Congress , H. A. HOMES , LL.D. , Librarian of the New York State Library , Hon . WILLIAM A. COURTENAY , Mayor of Charleston ...
... given me much valuable aid and information ; and I would also thank the Hon . A. R. SPOFFORD , Librarian of Congress , H. A. HOMES , LL.D. , Librarian of the New York State Library , Hon . WILLIAM A. COURTENAY , Mayor of Charleston ...
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... given ascendancy to party , and led armies to victory with more certainty and despatch than all the combinations of tactics and the most disinterested valor . We talk of the eagles of the Romans , of the contest between the crescent and ...
... given ascendancy to party , and led armies to victory with more certainty and despatch than all the combinations of tactics and the most disinterested valor . We talk of the eagles of the Romans , of the contest between the crescent and ...
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... the Continental army on the 15th of September , 1777 , just after the battle of the Brandywine , and given the command of the cavalry . He resigned that command in a few months , and 8 THE SYMBOLS , STANDARDS , AND BANNERS.
... the Continental army on the 15th of September , 1777 , just after the battle of the Brandywine , and given the command of the cavalry . He resigned that command in a few months , and 8 THE SYMBOLS , STANDARDS , AND BANNERS.
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Page 717 - When Freedom, from her mountain height, Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there; She mingled with its gorgeous dyes The milky baldric of the skies, And striped its pure, celestial white With streakings of the morning light; Then, from his mansion in the sun, She called her eagle bearer down, And gave into his mighty hand, The symbol of her chosen land.
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Page 239 - Flag of the free heart's hope and home, By angel hands to valor given ! Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were born in heaven.
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Page 718 - Sweeps darkly round the bellied sail, And frighted waves rush wildly back Before the broadside's reeling rack, Each dying wanderer of the sea Shall look at once to heaven and thee, And smile to see thy splendors fly In triumph o'er his closing eye.
Page 248 - 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.