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 63
g, according to its position, ordinarily sufficedto transmit all necessary orders in the daytime. At night, its placewas taken by lighted beacons. These flags, banners, standards, andpennants, most of them embroidered with the arms of a town, a sov- 1 A tnie description of His JIajestys royal ship,… … The Sovereign of the Seas, 1G37, by Vandevelde. OF ANCIENT AND MODERN NATIONS. 35 ereigii, or an admiral, were made of light stuffs, taffeta, or satin;sometimes square, sometimes triangular, sometimes forked, each hadits own use and significance, either for the embellishment of the ves-sels…
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