Our Nation's Flag: From the Standard of Spain in 1492 Up to the Flag of 48 Stars in 1917, Also Laws and Usages of the American StandardPress of J. S. Bletcher, 1917 - 21 pages |
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Our Nation's Flag: From the Standard of Spain in 1492 Up to the Flag of 48 ... Anna Lydia Russell Vance No preview available - 2016 |
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17th-Battle alternate red American flag Anniversary army banner in triumph Betsy Ross blue field Britian British canton ceremony coat of arms Colonial Flags Commodore Perry Congress displayed draped establish the flag European Flags facing the Flag favorite flag fifteen stars fifteen strips fitly represent Flag Day flag is hoisted flag of England flag should never Flags in America floated Fort McHenry forty-eight stars Francis Scott Key George's cross Hail Columbia half staff John Paul Jones July king's colors liberty cap national ensign national flag Navy Oe'r the land pine-tree emblem Pine-Tree Flag Porto Rico rattlesnake red and white red cross red flag representing Liberty Revenue Marine flag salute sections 4575h ship SPECIAL EMBLEMS special flags stand at attention standard of Spain Star Spangled Banner sunset symbol thee thirteen stripes TREAD Union United Colonies upper corner Washington wave Oe'r white field white flag white stripes WORD FLAG
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Page 20 - My native country, thee, Land of the noble free, Thy name I love! I love thy rocks and rills, Thy woods and templed hills, My heart with rapture thrills Like that above!
Page 13 - Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave: And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave!
Page 13 - Power that hath made and preserved us a nation. Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, And this be our motto: "In God is our trust...
Page 9 - that the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation.
Page 21 - ... shall have been printed, painted, attached or otherwise placed, a representation of any such flag, standard, color, or ensign to advertise, call attention to, decorate, mark or distinguish, the article or substance, on which so placed, or who shall publicly mutilate, deface, defile, or defy, trample upon, or cast contempt, either by words or act, upon any such flag, standard, color, or ensign...
Page 13 - O, say, can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming; And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Page 21 - Any person, who in any manner, for exhibition or display, shall place or cause to be placed, any word, figure, mark, picture, design, drawing, or any advertisement, of any nature upon any flag, standard, color or ensign of the United States...
Page 11 - That on the admission of every new State into the Union, one star be added to the union of the flag; and that such addition shall take effect on the fourth of July next succeeding such admission.
Page 11 - And be it further enacted, that on the admission of every new State into the Union one star be added to the Union of the flag; and that such addition shall take effect on the 4th of July next succeeding such admission.
Page 21 - ... or ensign of the United States of America, or a picture or a representation of either thereof, upon which shall be shown the colors, the stars and the stripes, in any number of either thereof, or by which the person seeing the same, without deliberation, may believe the same to represent the flag, colors, standard, or ensign of the United States of America.