Eagle,
The standard of the Persian and the Roman; also adopted by Charlemagne with a second head as the standard of the holy Roman empire of Germany. The [174] eagle was the standard of France during the empire, as it is now of Austria, Russia, and Prussia. The great seal of the United States shows a shield of thirteen perpendicular red and white stripes upholding a blue field. This shield is borne on the breast of the American eagle, holding in his dexter talon an olive branch, and in his sinister talon a bundle of thirteen arrows, and in his beak a small scroll inscribed with the motto E Pluribus Unum.
