History of the flag of the United States of America : 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 . d cuttingwood. In the spring he sent out his long-boat to the southwardon a voyage of discovery, and she did not return until the fall of theyear. These events took place about the time of the massacre of the Danes 1 Mr. Williamson, in his article on the Nortlunen in Maine, contends that the islandto the eastward of the main was Monhegan, w
History of the flag of the United States of America : 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 . d cuttingwood. In the spring he sent out his long-boat to the southwardon a voyage of discovery, and she did not return until the fall of theyear. These events took place about the time of the massacre of the Danes 1 Mr. Williamson, in his article on the Nortlunen in Maine, contends that the islandto the eastward of the main was Monhegan, while the river issuing from lakes, &c., iswell represented by the Kennebec, which joins the ocean near that island. De Monts,who visited Acadie in 1607, speaks of grapes in several places, and they were in suchplenty on the Isle of Orleans, in lat. 47°, that it was called the Island of Bacchus. FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES. 163 in England, and the revengeful invasion of the English coast bySweyne, whose sister Gunhilda, with her husband and son, had beenput to death in the presence and by command of Edric Streone, oneof the Anglo-Saxon chieftains. He ravaged Devonshire, Dorsetshire,and Wiltshire, as also other parts, and burnt several towns, until. Etheldred was glad to purchase a two years respite at a cost of£36,000, equivalent to the worth of 720,000 acres of land at thattime. He was also compelled to feed his invaders.^ The Danish ships with which Sweyne made his descent upon theEnglish coast in 1004 have been described with minuteness by con- ^ Soutlieys Naval History. 1(;4 OKKJIN AM» IKKCKKSS OF Till: temporary chroniclers, ami alVonl us uu idea of the vessels in and his brother Thorwald sailed along the American coast. • i^acli vessel, says Sir N. Harris Nicolas, citing contemporaneouschronicles, had a high deck and bore a distinctive emblem indicatingits commander, similar, probably, in object, to the banners of laterchieftains. The i>rows of the ships y
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