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 . o, An appeal to Heaven, and on the other, QuiTRANSTULIT SUSTINET. The whole was conducted with the utmostdecency, good order, and regularity, and to the universal acceptance ofall present. And the Philistines on BunkersHill heard the shout of the Israelites, and, be-ing very fearful, paraded themselves in battlearray. June 19, 1775, two day
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 . o, An appeal to Heaven, and on the other, QuiTRANSTULIT SUSTINET. The whole was conducted with the utmostdecency, good order, and regularity, and to the universal acceptance ofall present. And the Philistines on BunkersHill heard the shout of the Israelites, and, be-ing very fearful, paraded themselves in battlearray. June 19, 1775, two days after the battle ofBunker Hill, and before the news had reachedGeorgia, there was a meeting of a committee ofthe leading men of Savannah, to enforce therequirements of the American the meeting, a dinner was had at Ton-dees tavern, where a union flag was hoistedThe Pine Tree Flag. upon a liberty polo, and two pieces of artillery From a map published in Paris, plaCCd UudCT it. ^^^ Aug. 1, 1775, there was raised at Prospect Hill, Charlestown, for a flag-staff, a mast seventy-six feet high, wliichcame out of a schooner that was burnt at Chelsea. 1 Bancrofts History of the United States ; Frothinghams Siege of Boston ; I. *J02 (>ui(;iN AM> 1i;(;ki;ss ok iiii: In September, 1775, Avnolil made liis lumous expedition throughMaine to Canada, ami, when chilting down the gentle eurrent of theDead lliver, came suddenly in sight of a hjfty mountain covered withsnow, at the foot ol which he encamped three da}s, raising the conti-nental Hag over his tent. What its color was, or the devices upon it,we have no means of ascertaining. The mountain is now known as* Mount liigelow. — tradition asserting that Major Bigelow, of Arnoldslittle army, ascended to its summit, ho])ing to see tlie spires of Quel)ec. ])uring September, 1775, two strong lloating batteries were launchedon the Charles River, and opened a fire, in October, upon Boston, thatcaused gieat a
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