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 nations (1894)
Preble, George Henry, 1816-1885 · Boston, Mass. ; New York, N.Y. : Houghton, Mifflin and Co. · leaf 162
John ofGaunt on his marriage with Blanche, the heiress of Lancaster. WhenJohn of Gaunt adopted the red rose, his younger brother, EdmundLangley, Duke of York, assumed the white (derived from the Castle ofClifford), which he transmitted to his descendants, the House of York.Mr. Planche inclines to… … standard of Edward the Fourth. sable buU was another of his devices. He also placed the white roseen soldi on his standard in commemoration of his victory at thebattle of Mortimers Cross, 1471, when, before the battle, it is said,the sun appeared to Edward, then Earl of March, like three suns,and…
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