Lynn Korwatch located on top of Telegraph Hill. George F. Sweeney and Theodore F. Baugh were the two individuals to present the idea of a wooden semaphore on top of Telegraph Hill. A semaphore is a system in which one uses two flags or poles and sends signals in an alphabetic code. Sweeney and Baugh expanded their system by placing a signal station on Point Lobos, which is located 20–30 miles from port in San Francisco. The reasoning behind this was that there was high demand from people wanting to know when the ships were arriving at an earlier time so that
Flags of the Imperial Austrian Army of the Napoleonic Wars Musée de l'Armée. Two surviving 1800 Erzherzog Karl Legion flags appear to be the flags of the senior Bohemian and Moravian battalions. The first (on the left in the reference) displays the arms of Bohemia on the obverse and the Doppeladler (which is partly visible) on the reverse against a white background with red flames at the edges. This was the flag of the 1800 Leib Battalion (Prague Students). The right-side flag displays the arms of Moravia and is now in the "Heeresgeschichtliches Museum" (Museum of Military History, Vienna) collection, but unfortunately in poor condition now. The catalogue to the