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 . the frontier. 2. An American flag, taken probably in the Eevolutionary War. 3. An American flag, the same as the above. 4. A regimental color of the Fourth American Regiment, 1812-14. 5. An American flag taken by the Eighty-fifth Eegiment on theleft bank of the Mississippi. 6. An American flag, taken in the first war, probably at Boston. 7.
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 . the frontier. 2. An American flag, taken probably in the Eevolutionary War. 3. An American flag, the same as the above. 4. A regimental color of the Fourth American Regiment, 1812-14. 5. An American flag taken by the Eighty-fifth Eegiment on theleft bank of the Mississippi. 6. An American flag, taken in the first war, probably at Boston. 7. An American regimental flag of the Second Eegiment.^ The American ensign of the Canadian rebel steamer Caroline ispreserved in the Museum of the Eoyal JMilitary and Naval Institute,Scotland Yard, London. Immediately before the battle of Trafalgar, Nelson exhibited theever memorable signal, England expects every man vAll do his illustration is from an original drawing in the Eoyal Service In-stitution, and shows how great a number and variety of flags wasused. Each set of flags had to be arranged according to its numberin the signal-book, and run up to the masthead, until answered and 1 London Paper, 1836. OF ANCIENT AND MODERN NATIONS. 155. understood by each sliip. Then another set was run np, and so onuntil the signal was completed. Each set represented a word, exceptthe last word, duty, which, strange to say, was not represented by any number in thesignal-book, andhad to be spelledout. This tediousmethod of signal-ling is to some ex-tent still used bythe navy and mer-chant ships of allnations. Sir Har-ris Nicolas deemedit worth while toascertain as pre-cisely as he couldthe circumstances England-expects-every-n,an-wai-do-his-d-u-t-y. ^^^^^^^, ^^^^^-^^^ ^j^^^^ words were uttered. There are three accounts of the matter, — oneby Mr. James, in his Naval History; one by Captain Blackwood,who commanded the Euryalus at the battle of Trafalgar ; and one byCaptain Pasco,
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