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 53
anes and pennons musthave been soon suggested as a means ofascertaining the direction of the wind. TheIjlazoning them with the arms of the owner or the name of the vesselnaturally followed. Livy mentions that Scipio, B.C. 202, was metby a ship of the Carthaginians, garnished with infules,… … OF ANCIENT AND MODERN NATIONS. 25- slung upon a spreader, but hoisted on an ensign-staff abaft. TheProphet Ezekiel, whose prophecies date 600 years B.C., metaphori-cally comparing the maritime city of Tyre to one of the ships bywhich they carried on their commerce, speaks of her banner as madeof…
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