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 . pper-table, the health of Commodore Decatur andthe officers and crew of the United States was proposed, and drankwith all the honors.^ After the usual congratulations on this the third naval victorygained in a few months over the enemy, Mr. Hamilton, the secretaryof the navy, said to Captain Stewart, We are indebted to Bainbridgeand yoursel
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 . pper-table, the health of Commodore Decatur andthe officers and crew of the United States was proposed, and drankwith all the honors.^ After the usual congratulations on this the third naval victorygained in a few months over the enemy, Mr. Hamilton, the secretaryof the navy, said to Captain Stewart, We are indebted to Bainbridgeand yourself for these flags and victories. Had it not been for yourstrong remonstrance, not a vessel of war belonging to the governmentwould have left its anchorage. When Yankee meets the BritonWhose blood congenial flows,By Heaven created to be friends,By fortune rendered foes,Hard must be the battle frayEre well the fight is oer. 2 The flag worn by the United States l)rig Enterprise in her actionwith the British brig Boxer, Sept. 4, 1813, and afterwards the pall ^ McKenzies Life of Decatur, pp. 181, 182. 2 L. M. Sargents ode, sung at a dinner given to Ca^itain Hull by the citizens of Bos-ton, after the capture of the Gueniere. FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES. 327.
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