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 . ented Cfesar with a brigandine,or royal coat of arms, ornamented with pearls of the country, whichwas sent to Eome and consecrated to Venus. That war-dress, imitatedfrom the Oriental coat of mail, with scales, exhibitedshells and fishes, a brigantine, a boat, and a beaver, em-blems of the Brigantes, who also depicted a bear on theirtargets.
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 . ented Cfesar with a brigandine,or royal coat of arms, ornamented with pearls of the country, whichwas sent to Eome and consecrated to Venus. That war-dress, imitatedfrom the Oriental coat of mail, with scales, exhibitedshells and fishes, a brigantine, a boat, and a beaver, em-blems of the Brigantes, who also depicted a bear on theirtargets. The British pennons, banners, and flags of thistime were of woollen cloth or white leather. Emblemswere also engraven on iron arms and wooden weapons,as clubs and staves. These last have been the type of astaff or mace bearing the royal arms, which is still car-ried by British peace-officers. A Eoman prefect governed London, 44, assisted by a pnetor or judge. These magistrates had over their Arms of London, tribunal or judgment-seat a Phrygian cap, bearing the monogram, S. P. Q. E.; the staff wliich supported the cap was blue, the color of the Eoman people and army, and purple, representing the Eoman senate and nobility; these colors were dis-. 120 IlIK , STAM>Al;i>S. AM) posed like two twisted viblxins. imUiii^ on tlie lil)eity cap, theprefect was empowered to free any slave The sword of mercy andcliil) of Hercules also figured in the armorial hearings of the city underthe lioman prefects. The Emperor Trajan, waging war in tlurgistan, 1)8 to 117, cap-tured a standard exhibiting a dragon struck down Ly a adopted it as his ensign, and had it hoisted in all the provinces ofhis empire. The Georgian chevalier trampling on the dragon washence borne on the ensign and on the breast})lates of the Ifomanofficers, and waved on citadels and towns all over Britain. The Em-peror Valentiuian III., 42G-440, having recalled his legions f
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