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 83
ly two devices: one of a figure standing on a bull and draw-ing a bow; the other, two bulls running in opposite directions, sup-posed to be the symbols of peace and war. These figures are enclosedin a circle, and fixed to a long staff ornamented with streamers andtassels. These standards seem to… … Perslvn Standards. — The standard of ancient Persia, adopted byCyrus, according to Herodotus, and Xenophon, and perpetuated, was agolden eagle with outstretched wdngs painted on a white flag. The standard of Koah, the sacred standard of the Persians, wasoriginally the leather apron of the…
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