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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 85

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gneil to eacli his jiroper quailers,■which tliey did by erecting flags (t-iwilla) of different colors. TJieplace for the generals tent was marked with a white Hag. Each century, or at least each maniple, had its proper standardand standard-bearer. The standard of a manipulus in the time ofIfomulus… … Kuuiaii Staiulards. round or oval shield, ou which w^ere represented the images of %var-like deities, as Mars or Minerva, and in later times of the emperorsor of their favorites. Hence the standards w^ere called nuniina legi-onum, and worshipped with religious adoration. There were alsostandards of…

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