10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «STRIKE THE FLAG»
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Publications of
the Navy Records Society
Nor do we hear for a fortnight (till Tromp's letter of June 16 to the Ambassadors)
that he had sent a man aloft to strike the flag, a statement which is almost
expressly contradicted in his " Justification," ' i.e. his Rescript ' of later date.' I do
not ...
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Letters and Papers Relating to
the First Dutch War, 1652-1654
Nor do we hear for a fortnight (till Tromp's letter of June 16 to the Ambassadors)
that he had sent a man aloft to strike the flag, a statement which is almost
expressly contradicted in his " Justification," ' i.e. his Rescript ' of later date.' I do
not ...
Samuel Rawson Gardiner, Christopher Thomas Atkinson, 1899
The admiral complied, taking in his flag and hoisting a pennant ; but the vice-
admiral, on coming up, and being ordered to do likewise, defiantly told Young to
come on board and strike the flag himself. The captain, still desirous of avoiding ...
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Universal Technological Dictionary
To hang out the red flag," to give the signal of defiance and battle. “ To lower or
strike the flag,” to pull it down upon the cap, or to take it in, as a token of respect
or submission to a superior power. “ To lower or strike the flag" in an engagement
, ...
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Letters and Papers Relating to
the First Dutch War, 1652-1654
Nor do we hear for a fortnight (till Tromp's letter of June 16 to the Ambassadors)
that he had sent a man aloft to strike the flag, a statement which is almost
expressly contradicted in his “Justification,”' i.e. his Rescript 'of later date.' I do not
myself ...
Samuel Rawson Gardiner, Christopher Thomas Atkinson, 1899
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Pantologia: a new cabinet cyclopaedia, comprehending a ...
... the arms of the place where the person who freights them lives. To lower, or
strike the flag, is to pull it down upon the cap, or to take it in, out of respect or
submission, due from all ships or fleets inferior, to those any way justly their
superiors.
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Pantologia: A new cyclopaedia, comprehending a complete ...
To lower, or strike the flag, is to pull it down upon the cap, or to take it in, out of
respect or submission, due from all ships or fleets inferior, to those any way justly
their superiors. To lower ur strike the flag in an engagement is a sign of yielding.
John Mason Good, Olinthus Gregory, Newton Bosworth, 1813
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Pantologia. A new (cabinet) cyclopædia, by J.M. Good, O. ...
To lower or strike the flag in an engagement is a sign of yielding. The way of
leading a ship in triumph is to tie the flags to the shrouds or the gallery, in the
hind part of the ship, and let them hang down towards the water, and to tow the
vessels ...
John Mason Good, Olinthus Gilbert Gregory, 1819
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The Popular encyclopedia: or, conversations lexicon
To lower or strike the flag, is to pull it down upon the cap, or to take it in, out of the
respect or submission due from all ships or fleets, to those any way justly their
superiors. To lower or strike the flag, in an engagement, is a sign of yielding.
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Encyclopædia americana: a popular dictionary of arts, ...
To lower or strike the flag, is to pull it -down upon the cap, or to take it in, out of
the respect or submission due from all ships or fleets, to those any way justly their
superiors. To lower or strike the flag, in an engagement, js a sign of yielding.
Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, 1854
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