The Honour of the Flag (Classic Reprint)

The Honour of the Flag. A THAMES TRAGEDY. MANIFOLD are the historic interests of the river Thames. There is scarcely a foot of its mud from London Bridge to Gravesend Reach that is not as consecrated as that famous bit of soil which Dr. Samuel Johnson and Mr. Richard Savage knelt and kissed on stepping ashore at Greenwich. One of the historic interests, however, threatens to perish out of the annals. It does not indeed rise to such heroic proportions as you find in the story of the Dutch invasion of the river, or in old Hackluyt ssolemn narrative of the sailing of the expedition organised by Bristol snoble worthy, Sebastian Cabot; but it is altogether too good and stirring to merit erasure from the Thames shistory books by the neglect or ignorance of the historian.
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