Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1893 — • Many Captured British Flage. [ARTICLE]

• Many Captured British Flage.

It is asserted that there are in the Naval Institute Hall at the Annapolis, Md.-, academy, more British flags captured in war than at any one place in the world. The collection was first moved to the naval school by order of President Polk on February 9, 1840. They are well preserved, being closed up in cases made for the purpose. Among the many might be mentioned the following: Ensign of the Reindeer, captured June 28,1814, by Captain Johnson Blakely, of the Wasp; ensigns of the Cyane and Levant, captured February,2o, lgls, by Captain Charles Stewart, of the Constitution; ensign of the Java, captured December 29, 1812, by Captain William Bainbridge, of the Constellation, now at Annapolis; ensign of the Boxer, captured during the war of 1812, by Captain William Barrows, of the brig Enterprise, now at the academy, besides a large number of other English .flags, and several others taken from the Chinese, Coreans, Mexicans, French and Confederates. —The Collector.