The Official Flag Of The State Of Washington

Author : Charles West Stewart
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781331454434
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (544 download)

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Download or read book The Stars and Stripes From Washington to Wilson 1777-1914 written by Charles West Stewart and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Stars and Stripes From Washington to Wilson 1777-1914: Our National and State Laws Are Based on the Constitution and the Flag Is Its Symbol The story of "The Stars and Stripes from Washington to Wilson," in "The Navy" for October, 1913, is here reprinted, with some additions of text and illustration. The flags in outline are from the Navy Department plan referred to in Executive Order 1637 and show the proportions of the standard ensign and the navy boat flag, and the position, size, and arrangement of the stars in the ensign and in the boat flag. The portraits of George Washington, John Paul Jones, and George Dewey show the features of three of our heroes who have gained great victories in foreign wars. The Washington portrait is from the painting, in the War Department, by Huntington after Trumbull and others. The frontispiece is of right that of the President. The colored plates of the Stars and Stripes show the flag of 1777 with stars in a circle. It is probable that army flags were, at first, thus arranged, and that navy flags bore the stars in some staggered or quincunx grouping. The known navy flags of the period 1795-1818 had the stars in horizontal rows staggered; the Navy Commissioners, May 18, 1818, required the new flag to Lear twenty stars in four horizontal rows, staggered. This form was changed to a rectangular grouping of the four horizontal rows by direction of the President, four months later. The rectangular arrangement has been closely followed since that date. The writer has followed the flag through many written and printed records, and has found a growing reverence for the national ensign and an increasing desire for fixed proportions and sizes of the flag, a desire that resulted in the Executive Order, 1637, October 29, 1912. There is no known contemporaneous written account of the construction of our first national flag in 1776 or 1777, and the Stars and Stripes was probably not widely known or generally used on land until after the Revolutionary War. Governments and nations are slow of growth. Our flag was not the beloved ensign of a great nation when it was first used, and it is not strange that the State flags were then more important than the national flag. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.