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Full title: Flags at Sea: A guide to the flags flown at sea by British and some foreign ships, from the 16th century to the present day, illustrated from the collections of the National Maritime Museum

Fair number of photographs, drawings and illustrations, some in colour. Sections on British, U.S., Spanish, Dutch and French maritime flags as well as a little on signalling and the making of flags. Plus an extensive bibliography of 198 titles.
David Prothero, 5 May 1997

I can’t imagine anyone with a serious interest in the history of flags who would not want to buy it. Among the unexpected goodies is the best bibliography of early flag books and charts I’ve seen and a great glossary of flag terms.
Norm Martin, 05 Jul 1999

I really like this book. There are a couple of superb flag charts in there as well — one being the Napoleonic chart, if I recall correctly.
David Cohen, 06 Jul 1999

The text deals with the flags of Great Britian (in depth) and the United States, the Netherlands, Spain and France. Excellent information regarding the evolution of the British ensigns used at sea. Includes color and black and white reproductions of flag charts and notebooks dating from 1685. Extensive bibliographies and glossary.
Phil Nelson, Nov 1999

This is a revised edition of a popular history, first published in 1986, of the flags flown at sea during the Age of Sail. Beautifully illustrated with more than one hundred thirty photographs — seventy-four in color — it features the flags flown by the principal naval powers — Great Britain, France, the Netherlands, Spain, and the United States. The clear narrative unravels myths and misunderstandings about where, when, and why certain flags — like the piratical “Jolly Roger” — were flown. It also tackles such complicated issues as signaling in peace and war. Contemporary flag charts and specially commissioned drawings provide the degree of detail necessary for modelmakers, artists, and historians. The remarkable amount of information presented on the all-important functions of identification and signaling at sea makes an important contribution to the literature.
quoted by David Cohen, 04 Oct 1999

Full title: Flags at Sea: A guide to the flags flown at sea by British and some foreign ships, from the 16th century to the present day, illustrated from the collections of the National Maritime Museum

Full title: Flags of the Napoleonic Wars (3): Colours, Standards and Guidons of Anhalt, Kleve-Berg, Brunswick, Denmark, Finland, Hanover, Hesse, the Netherlands, Mecklenburg, Nassau, Portugal, Reuss, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland & Westphalia

The character "@" is not a misrendered polish letter, but a pun for "a", symbolizing internet communication. Avaliable on the www at http://www.paiz.gov.pl/wserwatowski/.
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On June 14, 1846, a band of rebels calling themselves Osos — their name inspired by grizzly bears whose “fighting spirit” they admired — gathered in the plaza of Sonoma, California. At dawn that day, they had ridden into the town and occupied it, forcing the Mexican Colonel Vallejo to surrender. In celebration of their bloodless victory, the rebels fashioned a flag bearing their emblem: a brown bear on a white field, a red stripe along the bottom and a red star in the upper corner, and the words "California Republic"--painted in pokeberry juice. The Osos cheered as the Bear Flag was raised for the first time. Dale L. Walker’s Bear Flag Rising tells how America wrested California from Mexico, and the events that changed the map of the U.S. more radically than any event after the Louisiana Purchase. Walker enlivens California’s already colorful history with capsule biographies of the heroic villains and villainous heroes that populated the area. Notable among these are Commodore Robert Field Stockton and General Stephen Watts Kearny, both ostensibly with the same purpose — to claim California and fulfill America’s Manifest Destiny — but with differing methods and goals. Caught between the rival conquerors’ enormous egos, celebrated explorer John Charles Frémont ended up with his career (and, possibly, his life) in danger. Thoroughly researched, engagingly written, Bear Flag Rising is an excellent addition to the growing list of books on the American West.
Sunny Delaney, quoted by David Cohen, 03 May 2000