History of the flag of the U.S. frigate, the Bon Homme Richard : owned by the late Miss Sarah Smith Stafford, and willed by her to her brother, Samuel Bayard Stafford

History of the flag of the U.S. frigate, the Bon Homme Richard : owned by the late Miss Sarah Smith Stafford, and willed by her to her brother, Samuel Bayard Stafford

Flag of the U.S. frigate, the Bon Homme Richard

Boston : Press of E.B. Stillings & Co., 1898.

12 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

929.90973 H673 1898

(OCoLC)235924290

Also published in 1893 & 1895.
Poem "Salute to the flag. Words and music by Herbert A. Preston, Washington, D.C." (p. [3])
"It was worn by the Bon Homme Richard ... during the action with the British frigate the Serapis, September 23, 1779, and there is the claim that it was the first flag bearing the stars and stripes ever hoisted over an American vessel of war ..."--p. [4].
Penciled notes on p. [4]
L2014F108

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