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 301
on of thissignal, the fight continued, and by its depression or inclination to the right or left,the ships were directed how to attack their enemies or to retreat from them. Inmatters of military parade, probably derived from this ancient custom, it Is usualto fix a red flag, called a signal-staff,… … 264 Origin and Progress of the One of the best of the devices suggested for a union was a circle ofthirteen mailed hands, issuing from a cloud, and grasping as many links of an endless chain. An instance ofthis device exists in the flag or color of aNewburyport company, which was on exhi-bition in…
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