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 314
mmittees on the devices of ^ As the palpr or paUets consist of an uneven number, they ought In strictness tobe blazoned, arficnt fi paUets galea; but as the thirteen pieces allude to the thirteenStates, they are blazoned accordins: to the numljer of puces paleuays. This was borrowed from the… … Adopted June 20,1782. AR]\rs. Paleirays. of ihirteon pieces argeni and gules; a chiefazure; the escutcheon on the breast of the American eagle displayedproper, holding in his dexter talon an olive branch, and in his sinister abundle of thirteen arrows, all prroper; and in his beal- a scroll,…
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