Origin and history of the American flag 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 (1917)
Preble, George Henry, 1816-1885, Asnis, Charles Edward · Philadelphia, N. L. Brown · leaf 188
l Institute,Scotland Yard, Ix)ndon. Immediately before the battle of Trafalgar, Nelson exhibited the(•\(r memorable signal, Enrjland expects every man irill do his (li;li/.Till! illustration is from an original drawing in the Royal Service In-stitution, and shows how great a nuiiilier and variety… … understood by each ship. Then another set was run up, and so onuntil the signal was completed. Each set represented a word, exceptthe last word, duty, which, strange to say, was not represented by any number in thesignal-b o o k, andhad to bo spelledout. This tediousmetliod of siim il-hvj; is to…
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