Our Flag: Origin and Progress of the Flag of the United States of America, with an Introductory Account of the Symbols, Standards, Banners and Flags of Ancient and Modern NationsJ. Munsell, 1872 - 535 páginas |
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... soon after the siege of Boston , while the American army was en- camped near the city of New York . It consisted of a major's command , one hundred and eighty men , and its chief bore the title of captain commandant . The uniform of the ...
... soon after the siege of Boston , while the American army was en- camped near the city of New York . It consisted of a major's command , one hundred and eighty men , and its chief bore the title of captain commandant . The uniform of the ...
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... soon sug- gested , as a means of ascertaining the direction of the wind . The blazoning them with the arms of the owner , or the name of the vessel naturally followed . Livy mentions that Scipio ( B. C. 202 ) , was met by a ship of the ...
... soon sug- gested , as a means of ascertaining the direction of the wind . The blazoning them with the arms of the owner , or the name of the vessel naturally followed . Livy mentions that Scipio ( B. C. 202 ) , was met by a ship of the ...
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... soon as they were informed an English fleet of forty ships was at sea , and in search of them , they quitted the English coast and returned to their own . On the 20th of Aug. , 1636 , the Dutch vice admiral , Van Dorp , saluted the ...
... soon as they were informed an English fleet of forty ships was at sea , and in search of them , they quitted the English coast and returned to their own . On the 20th of Aug. , 1636 , the Dutch vice admiral , Van Dorp , saluted the ...
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... soon introduced an opinion that as long as the guard of the la- barum were engaged in the execution of the office , they were secure and invulnerable among the darts of the enemy . and dreaded the power of this consecrated banner , the ...
... soon introduced an opinion that as long as the guard of the la- barum were engaged in the execution of the office , they were secure and invulnerable among the darts of the enemy . and dreaded the power of this consecrated banner , the ...
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... soon it is perfected . " The whole company of officers and soldiers who had previously knelt down and bowed their heads in the prescribed manner , now simultaneously rise up with a shout and commence their march at once , for the scene ...
... soon it is perfected . " The whole company of officers and soldiers who had previously knelt down and bowed their heads in the prescribed manner , now simultaneously rise up with a shout and commence their march at once , for the scene ...
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Página 497 - WHEN Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night. And set the stars of glory there. She mingled with its gorgeous dyes The milky baldric of the skies, And striped its pure celestial white With streakings of the morning light; Then from his mansion in the sun She called her eagle bearer down, And gave into his mighty hand The symbol of her chosen land.
Página 509 - My native country, thee — Land of the noble free — Thy name I love; I love thy rocks and rills, Thy woods and templed hills; My heart with rapture thrills Like that above.
Página 292 - Constitution of the United States of America was ratified, and also all acts and parts of acts of the General Assembly of this State ratifying amendments of the said Constitution, are hereby repealed; and that the union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States, under the name of the "United States of America,
Página 493 - Oh, say, can you see by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming; Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming? And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Página 341 - Having defended Fort Sumter for thirty-four hours, until the quarters were entirely burned, the main gates destroyed by fire, the gorge wall seriously injured, the maga'zine surrounded by flames...
Página 300 - Have not I commanded thee ? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.
Página 500 - And ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves, While the earth bears a plant, or the sea rolls its waves.
Página 498 - Sweeps darkly round the bellied sail, And frighted waves rush wildly back Before the broadside's reeling rack, Each dying wanderer of the sea Shall look at once to heaven and thee, And smile to see thy splendors fly In triumph o'er his closing eye.
Página 309 - I shall have the most solemn one to 'preserve, protect and defend it.' I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Página 493 - O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?