George Henry Preble (February 25, 1816 – March 1, 1885) was an American naval officer and writer, notable for his history of the flag of the United States...
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the Flag of the United States of America by George Henry Preble, a flag scholar in the late 1800s. Preble himself did not discuss the arrangement of the...
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Star-Spangled Banner (flag) (redirect from Fort McHenry flag)
Appleton lent the flag to George Henry Preble, a naval officer who had written a popular history of the American flag. Preble had the flag quilted to a...
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burning of Falmouth by British Naval Commander Henry Mowat. It is said that this action compelled Preble to join the Navy. It also contributed to his terrible...
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Banners, and Flags of Ancient and Modern Nations, Volume 2, by George Henry Preble, Charles Edward Asnis, 1917 Delaware Flag: 29 Del. C. 1953, § 506;...
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failed to find corroborating evidence for his grandmother's story. George Henry Preble states in his 1882 text that no combined stars and stripes flag was...
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fire to good effect. In later describing the action, Lieutenant George Henry Preble – who commanded Union gunboat Katahdin which heard the firing and...
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schwarz-rot-gold. ("The federal flag shall be black, red, and gold."). George Henry Preble: The symbols, standards, flags, and banners of ancient and modern...
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commissioned at Boston Navy Yard on 17 February 1862, with Lieutenant George Henry Preble in command. Katahdin was assigned to the West Gulf Blockading Squadron...
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Retrieved July 18, 2024. George Henry Preble. Brigadier General Jedidiah Preble and his descendants. Boston. 1868 Letters of Preble Preble letter re: Mowatt...
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on Me" [sic]; this design appeared in a color plate in Admiral George Henry Preble's influential History of the Flag of the United States. Recent scholarship...
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USS Donegal Commander George Henry Preble, Naval Support Brigade Ashore First Lieutenant (Acting Lieutenant Colonel) George G. Stoddard, Commanding...
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1876, p. 102 "A Canoe Expedition Into the Everglades in 1842", George Henry Preble, United Service, A Quarterly Review of Military and Naval Affairs...
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Secretary of War Henry Dearborn authorized construction of Fort Preble in 1808 with his son, Massachusetts Militia officer and future general Henry A. S. Dearborn...
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Trenton, on July 5, 1809. A Chronological History of the Origin and Development of Steam Navigation, George Henry Preble, 1883, pp. 42, 49, and 56 v t e...
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Foote, Jenkins Peak he named after Thornton A. Jenkins, Preble Peak for George Henry Preble, Bainbridge Peak after William Bainbridge, and Rodman Peak...
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(2006). Flag: An American Biography. Macmillan. ISBN 978-0312323097. Preble, George Henry (1872). Our Flag. Albany: Joel Munsell. LCCN 09026595. OCLC 990016...
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Anges", American Journal of Legal History, vol. 39, pp. 215–234. Preble, George Henry, "Ships of the Nineteenth Century, Part I", The United Service, vol...
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Thomas Motherwell Preble (1810–1907) was a Free Will Baptist minister in New Hampshire and a Millerite preacher. After accepting the teachings of William...
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Seal of the Confederate States (category George Washington in art)
incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. Preble, George Henry (1880). History of the flag of the United States of America, and...
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Henry Jackson van Dyke Jr. (November 10, 1852 – April 10, 1933) was an American author, educator, diplomat, and Presbyterian clergyman. Van Dyke was born...
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Meigs Miami Morgan Morrow Muskingum Noble Ottawa Paulding Perry Pickaway Preble Putnam Richland Ross Sandusky Scioto Seneca Shelby Stark Van Wert Vinton...
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FL: University Press of Florida. pp. 284–285. ISBN 0-8130-1758-0. Preble, George Henry (1872). Our Flag: Origin and Progress of the Flag of the United States...
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Medal of Honor recipient Holman S. Melcher, mayor, Civil War veteran Edward Preble, naval officer Herbert E. Schonland, Medal of Honor recipient Ronald Speirs...
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Publishing. p. 21. ISBN 978-1855323506. OCLC 60073206. OL 8992838M. Preble, George Henry (1880). History of the Flag of the United States of America (2nd...
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of the Navy -- Naval Historical Center. Retrieved 27 March 2013. Preble, George Henry (1892). History of the United States Navy-yard, Portsmouth, N. H...
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and deployed with the squadron off Gibraltar on 14 September. Commodore Preble dispatched Vixen and the frigate Philadelphia in October to establish a...
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2017. Preble, George Henry (1868). Genealogical Sketch of the First Three Generations of Prebles in America: With an Account of Abraham Preble the Emigrant...
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Tilden, a Boston Unitarian clergyman and the father of George Tilden. Commodore Edward Preble, Commodore of the American fleet in 1804 when it bombarded...
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