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 180
ers show on the bowsprits of vesselsof war the flag known as the union jack, presumptive proof that suchwas the union devised by the heralds. In a drawing of the Duke ofYorks yacht visiting the fleet in the ^Nledway, painted by Vandeveldeand preserved in the British Museum, all the ensigns have a… … main, and another at the mizzen. There is also an admirals ship with the white at the main. In a paper dated Friday, Jan. 14, 1652, By the commissioners for ordering and managing y« affairs of the Admiralty and Xavy, ordering what flag shall be worn by flag-ofiicers, it is ordered, all the shijDps…
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