Our country's flag and the flags of foreign countries (1898)
Holden, Edward Singleton, 1846-1914 · New York : D. Appleton and company · leaf 48
edto be a piece of great presumption, and toshow that the New Eno-land colonies were onthe way to become independent—as indeedthey were. There is an anecdote that showswhat Charles II thought about the matter. Charles had been saved from captureafter the battle of Worcester (1651) by hid-ing in an… … Fig. 7.—The pine-tree flag of New England. the colonists, because the king was in a grQatrage when some one showed him the pine-tree currency, and when he learned in thisway that New England was presuming tocoin money of her own. This was an unpar-donable assumption of authority. But when it was…
Flags
Internet Archive · California Digital Library · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
