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 261
ely then, says thisreasoner, that in adopting a device for a union flag our fathers shouldderive the idea from a country to whose example they were alreadyso much indebted. A more commonplace origin for the stripes has been suggested.The continental army of 1775 was without uniforms, and the… … ^ The United Provinces of the Netherlands on their Independence devised for theirstandard the national lion of Flanders [rampant gui, grasping In his paws a sheafof seven arrows or, to denote the seven provinces, and a naked sword, which had beenborne by the counts from the eleventh century. The…
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