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 207
ated Paris, Dec. 1.5, 1868, advocatesJohn Cabots discovery of North America in 1404. and that he kept his discoverysecret, to escape the exclusive pretensions of Spain and Portugal, until he hadobtained the letters-patent from Henry VII., signed March 5, 1496, and returnedfrom his voyage in August,… … On the ATerrazano map of 1529, in the Propaganda, Eome, there arethree flags placed to indicate the claims of Francis I. in North America, and colored hlue,which about that time wasmade the color of France, inopposition to the wliite flagof England. These flagshave no device Avhatever.^ There is…
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