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 184
tary and Naval Institute,Scotland Yard, London. Immediately before the battle of Trafalgar, Nelson exhibited theever memorable signal, England expects every man vAll do his duty.The illustration is from an original drawing in the Eoyal Service In-stitution, and shows how great a number and variety… … understood by each sliip. Then another set was run np, and so onuntil the signal was completed. Each set represented a word, exceptthe last word, duty, which, strange to say, was not represented by any number in thesignal-book, andhad to be spelledout. This tediousmethod of signal-ling is to some…
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