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 87
58 Tin-: SVM150LS, STANDAKDS, AND I.ANNKKS wiu-s, and was usually of silver, till the time uf Ihiiliiaii, wliu matleit of ^okl The (louhle-headcd eagle was iu use among the Byzantineemperors, to indicate their claim to the empire both of the east andwest. From the Itnnian standard is derived the… … Roman Imperial Standards. borne on so many of the standards of modern Europe. The countriesthey represent claim to be fragments or descendants of the greatRoman Empire. The changes of the Eoman standard marked theepoch of their conquests, first of the Greeks, then of the barbarians.The…
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