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 674
of the shield.Over the head of the bird hang the scales of justice evenly balanced,and a circle of eighteen stars around the upper part of the shield sig-nifies the number of States in the Union in 1812, at the time of theadmission of Louisiana. Over these stars, on the outer edge of theshield, is… … Arms of Texas. Texas was first settled in 1792. In 1827, the united forces ofthe districts of Nacogdoches and Aysli Bayou declared the prov-ince of Texas free and independent of Mexico,and hoisted a flag with the words Libertyand independence upon it. The flag consistedof a red and white stripe,…
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