Story of the American flag with patriotic selections and incidents (1903)
Fallows, Samuel, Bp., 1835-1922, ed · Boston [etc.] Educational publishing co · leaf 63
antecedents for our stripes in the Dutch flagelsew^iere spoken of and described. One theory is thatthey were borrowed from Washingtons coat-of-arms; butthere is for this only a very slight foundation, and it is notnow seriously considered. The British East India Companys flag has been referredto… … iherem. Many of these theories are very suggestive; someof them wonderfully ingenious, and each one of them is,of course, more or less plausible. One writer is eloquent in these words: Every nationhas its symbolic ensign. Some have beasts, some birds,some fish, some reptiles on their banners. Our…
Flags -- United States · Patriotism
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