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 741
up of military trophies, with thePhrygian cap, the emblem of freedom, be-tween a spear and a musket; over this wasa serpent. Beneath the trophies the date, MDCCLXXViii. Around the seal were thewords, Board of War and Ordnance, UnitedStates of America. This Avas the origin ofthe present seal of the… … Seal of the War Department.1778-1880. THE SEAL AND ARMS OF THE UNITED STATES. 699 TkeA-SURY Department. — Congress ordered a seal to he preparedfor this department on the 26th of Sep-tember, 1778, at the same time that onewas directed for tlie Navy Department,and the device then adopted for…
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