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 330
f the late Lord Lyndhurst, mustbe assigned that honor. Elkanah Watson, of Philadelphia, a distinguished patriot and phi-lanthropist, relates in his Eeminiscences that, at the close of ourrevolutionary struggle, having on the occasion of Lord Howes reliefof Gibraltar received one hundred guineas as… … ^^-^,, FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES. 297 and the same day dining with Copley, he resolved to devote that sumto a portrait of himself. The painting was finished all but the back-ground, that being reserved by Copley to represent a ship bearingto America intelligence of the acknowledgment of…
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