. Our flag number, with 1197 flags in full colors and 300 additional illustrations in black and white. rection of the blazoning them with the arms of the owner, or the nameof the vessel naturally followed. Livy mentions that Scipio (B. ), was met by a ship of the Carthaginians garnished withinfules, ribbands and white flags ofpeace^and beset with branches of olives, medal of thetimeof Antiochus VII,king of Syria, B. C. 123, shows agalley without mast or sail having aswallow-tailed flag, not slung upon aspreader but hoisted on an ensign staffabaft. The prophet Ezekiel, whose
. Our flag number, with 1197 flags in full colors and 300 additional illustrations in black and white. rection of the blazoning them with the arms of the owner, or the nameof the vessel naturally followed. Livy mentions that Scipio (B. ), was met by a ship of the Carthaginians garnished withinfules, ribbands and white flags ofpeace^and beset with branches of olives, medal of thetimeof Antiochus VII,king of Syria, B. C. 123, shows agalley without mast or sail having aswallow-tailed flag, not slung upon aspreader but hoisted on an ensign staffabaft. The prophet Ezekiel, whoseprophecies date some 600 years , when metaphorically com-paring the maritime city of Tyre to one of the ships by whichthey carried on their commerce, speaks of her banner as made offine linen. The illuminated copies of Froissarts Chronicles in the BritishMuseum present many curious illustrations of the manner ofcarrying the flags at sea. Some of the vessels have a man atarms in the top holding on a staff the banner of the nation towhich it belongs. One of the illuminations of the time of Henry. 1 Retroipecti-ve Review. FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES. 29 VI, (1430-61), represents a ship with shields slung along hertopsides, a very ancient practice, which was continued by paintingthe arms and devices on the bulwarks, and from whence comethe figure heads and stern carvings of modern ships. In someinstances the banners of ships were consecrated. Baldwin, Earlof Flanders (1204), had one of this description, and William theConqueror, when he invaded England (1066), hoisted at the mast-head of the Mora* the ship that conveyed him to its shores, asquare white banner. This banner was charged with a goldcross within a blue border, surmounted by another cross of goldconsecrated by Pope Alexander II, expressly for the occasion. A variety of colors were borne by ships in the fourteenthcentury. Besides the national banner of St. George and thebanner of the kings army, which, after the year 13
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