History of the Union Jack and Flags of the EmpireCumberland, Barlow
History
History of the Union Jack and Flags of the Empire
Cumberland, Barlow
Emblems -- Great Britain; Flags -- Great Britain
Revelstoke | 3.53 | 11.53
Chilliwack | 3.58 | 11.58
| |
| | A.M.
| | 21st.
Vancouver | 4.12 | 12.12
Victoria | 4.13 | 12.13
| |
PACIFIC OCEAN: | |
| |
SHIPS AT SEA-- | LONGITUDE |
_Aorangi_ |147° 49´ W.| 1.51
_Empress of China_ |152° 39´ W.| 2.11
| |
WAILANGILALA ISLAND |179° 6´ W. | 3.56
INDEX.
A
Achaius adopts St. Andrew Cross, 65.
Acre, Richard I. at siege of, 45.
Admirals, titles under Commonwealth, 95;
three ranks, 274;
nine ranks, 275;
reduced to three, 276.
Admiral of Narrow Seas, 60, 104.
Admiral of fleet, rank and flag, 264.
Admirals' flags under Henry VIII., 273;
Commonwealth, 93;
Charles II., 274;
subsequent centuries, 274;
present day, 50, 70, 91, 108;
on ironclads, 276.
Admiralty badge on epaulettes, 48.
Admiralty Regulations, penalty for infraction, 52;
proportions in Union Jack, 208.
Alfred the Great collects first navy, 54;
sea maxim, 54.
Allan Line House flag, 27.
Ambassador's flag, Russian, 43;
British, 265.
Armada defeated under Cross of St. George, 51, 61, 102.
Arms, Savoy, 23;
Earl of Elgin, 65;
Washington, 177;
Fitzgeralds, 151;
Ancient of Ireland, 145;
Henry V. to Elizabeth, 71;
James I., 72;
Anne, 123;
George II., 190;
George III., first, 196;
altered, 202;
Victoria, 148.
Assyrian emblems, 15.
Athelstane, first merchant navy, 55.
Australian emblems, 283;
ensign, 288.
Austria, eagle, 16, 144;
white cross, 44.
Aztecs, eagle emblem, 17.
B
Banner, feudal period, 38;
Percy, 39;
English Sovereigns, 71;
Commonwealth, 93;
Joan of Arc, 25;
St. Martin, 25;
St. Denis, 25;
St. George, 41;
St. Andrew, 64, 70;
Robert Bruce, 65;
St. Patrick, 141;
personal of Sovereign, 92, 99.
Barbarossa, Emperor, standard, 22.
Barton, Sir Andrew, 69.
Bavaria, national colours, 24.
Beyrut, grotto of St. George, 42.
Blake carries whip-lash, 108.
Blazon, heraldic, a description, 204;
Union Jack, George III., 203;
controversies, 204, 206, 232;
design preceded, 205;
Jack made as ordered, 234.
Blue ensign, who entitled to use, 277;
on colonial ships, 277.
Border to St. George, narrow under James I., 77;
enlarged, 127;
represents white ground, 127;
justified, 210.
Broad white St. George, in 1707, 127;
in 1801, 205;
same size St. Andrew, 210, 226.
Broad white St. Andrew, 209, 217.
Bourbon standard, 25, 126.
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