 an elegant standard, such as is to be used by the commander-in-chief of the American navy ; being a yellow flag, with a lively representation of a rattlesnake in the middle in the attitude of going to strike, and these words underneath,  Wide Awake - Page 1301886Full view - About this book
 | John Paul Jones - 1830 - 564 pages
...in chief of the American navy ; being a yellow field with a lively representation of a rattlesnake in " the attitude of going to strike, and these words underneath, ' Don't tread on me.' ' This was doubtless thu strange flag of which an English writer of that period speaks in the following... | |
 | John Paul Jones - 1855 - 560 pages
...in chief of ths American navy ; being a yellow field with a lively representation of a rattlesnake in " the attitude of going to strike, and these words underneath, ' Don't tread on me.' ' This was doubtless thu strange flag of which an English writer of that period speaks in tin' following... | |
 | Congregationalist and Herald of Gospel Liberty - 1867 - 542 pages
...Carolina, February 9, 1776, as the standard for the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy, was a yellow flag " with a lively representation of a rattlesnake in the middle, in the attitude of going to strike ; and the words underneath, — 'Don't tread on me!' " The first use of a new Union flag, as the common banner... | |
 | George Henry Preble - 1872 - 578 pages
...standard, such as is to be used by the commander in chief of the American navy ; being a yellow flag with a lively representation of a rattlesnake in the...and these words underneath, ' Don't tread on me.' Congress ordered that the said standard be carefully preserved and suspended in the congress room."... | |
 | 1873 - 968 pages
...standard, such as is to bo used by the commander-inchief of the American navy, being a yellow field, with a lively representation of a rattlesnake in the middle in the attitude of going to strike, and the words underneath, ' Don't tread on me.' " Ordered, That the said standard be carefully preserved... | |
 | Schuyler Hamilton - 1877 - 60 pages
...whom Colonel Gadsden, Chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs, presented it, "being a yellow field, with a lively representation of a rattlesnake in the middle, in the attitude of striking, with the words underneath, ' Don't tread on me ' " (American Archives, 4th Series, Vol. V.,... | |
 | Abner Comstock Smith - 1877 - 184 pages
...adopted the standard to be used by the Commander-in-Chief of the American Navy, being a yellow field, with a lively representation of a rattlesnake in the middle, in the attitude of striking. Underneath were the words, "Don't tread on me." This standard furnished the basis of the... | |
 | John Austin Stevens, Benjamin Franklin DeCosta, Henry Phelps Johnston, Martha Joanna Lamb, Nathan Gillett Pond - 1877 - 838 pages
...Colonel Gadsden, Chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs, presented it, " being a yellow field, with a lively representation of a rattlesnake in the middle, in the attitude pi striking, with the words underneath, ' Don't tread on me,' " (American Archives, 4th Series, Vol.... | |
 | George Henry Preble - 1880 - 890 pages
...standard, such as is to be used by the commander-in-chief of the American navy ; being a yellow flag, with a lively representation of a rattlesnake in the...and these words underneath, ' Don't tread on me.' " Congress ordered that the said standard be carefully preserved and suspended in the Congress-room... | |
 | 1905 - 850 pages
...Heaven." Another read, "An Appeal to God." That was one flag. There was another flag of yellow silk, with a lively representation of a rattlesnake in the middle in the attitude of going to strike, and underneath, "Don't Tread on Me." So the Pine Tree was one flag, the Rattlesnake flag another. The Rattlesnake... | |
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