British Flag

“British flag. This is a representation of one of the flags surrendered at Yorktown, and presented to Washington. I made this sketch of the flag itself, then in the Museum at Alexandria, in Virginia. It belonged to the seventh regiment. The size of the flag is six feet long, and five feet four inches wide. The ground is blue; the central stripe of the cross red; the marginal ones white. In the center is a crown, and beneath it a garter with its inscription, ‘Honi soit qui mal y pense,’ inclosing a full-blown rose. These are neatly embroidered with silk. The fabric of the flag is heavy twilled silk."—Lossing, 1851

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