British Flags: Their Early History, and Their Development at Sea / With an Account of the Origin of the Flag as a National Device

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PREFACE

CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Chapter I The Origin of the Flag and its Development up to the end of the Thirteenth Century

Chapter II Early English, Scottish, and Irish Flags (i) ENGLAND

Chapter III The Union Flags and Jacks

Chapter IV Flags of Command (i) THE ROYAL STANDARD

Chapter V Colours of Distinction

Chapter VI Flag Signals (i) EARLY SIGNALS

Chapter VII Ceremonial and other Usages

INDEX

TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE


The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.

Obvious typographical and punctuation errors have been corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within the text and consultation of external sources.

More detail can be found at the end of the book.


CAMBRIDGE NAVAL AND MILITARY SERIES

GENERAL EDITORS

SIR JULIAN S. CORBETT, LL.M., F.S.A.

H. J. EDWARDS, C.B., C.B.E., M.A.

BRITISH FLAGS


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Frontispiece
A Ship of Henry VIII, circa 1545

BRITISH FLAGS

THEIR EARLY HISTORY, AND THEIR DEVELOPMENT AT SEA; WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE ORIGIN OF THE FLAG AS A NATIONAL DEVICE

BY

W. G. PERRIN

ADMIRALTY LIBRARIAN
SECRETARY OF THE NAVY RECORDS SOCIETY
FELLOW OF THE ROYAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY


ILLUSTRATED IN COLOUR

BY

HERBERT S. VAUGHAN

CHEVALIER OF THE LEGION
OF HONOUR


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