Maltby, Albert Elias, 1850- [from old catalog] · Slippery Rock, Pa., The Signal · leaf 14
asts that blow.Who dares to strike that banner in face of any foe! And oer the hroad Atlantic ne caught the trade-wind fair.And braved the angry Lion within his island lair:Up the blue firth of Solway, on the^bright river Dee.Lord Selkirks proud retainers before him bent the knee. High soared the… … 777- FIG. B. THE HISTORY OF OUR FLAG. 9 There is no good evidence that any flag bearing the union of the stars had been in public use be-fore the passage of this resolution. Fiske, in his history of the United States, refers to a flaghoisted at Fort Stanwix, August 6, 1777, after a successful…
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