Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1907-01-05
THEFLAG IN HISTORY
ORIGIN OF NATIONAL EM5LEMs OF
THE OLD WORLD.

- Arc and the White Banner OF
p-,c.--The TrfcoIor of Holland
90 Auaustine, the Missionary, In
...a EIar. Into England.
The first western sovereign to adop'
Gao WAS Clovis, king Of the FRANKS
After his conversion to Christiahity ~
tho ffth century he took the "chape ae
CT Martin" as his standard. MS
according to some writers, was actu-
oIlv mart of the cloak which the SANITY
bishop of Tours cut in two In oroer 10
share II with beggar at Amiehs. More
credible authorities, however, assert
tbot n was the blue flag OF St Mar
tins abbey. ,.,,s
After Clovis, the Merovingian kings
seem to have returned to the ancien.
emblems. They were content 10 ngn'
under eagles, flowers, crosses OF Tue
,noces Of saints until the time OF Char
lomoene. who, II an old mosaic IN tne
Church Of st. John Lateran Mt Rome
is TO be believed, relntroduced the piue
flag embelllshed with six RED roses
The color of the French nag was
changed in 1924, when Louis the fa'
carried the red orlhamb Of ST. Denis
IN his struggles against the German
emperor Henry V. This continued 10
be the official French flag down TO tne
battle Of Aglncourt in 1415. In tne
meantime the blue flag had again mace
,ts oppearance. now decorated with the
( eeur.de-lis instead of the roses OF
Charlemagne. In this form 1t was car
ried at Acre and Crecy and Poltiers
, until in the fifteenth century II De-
came the banner Of France.
The first white flag in French histo
! ~ was the banner OF the Virgin Mary
borne by Joan Of Arc In her heroic
campaigns for the defense OF the oau'
min. A pure white flag was occasion
ally used by Francis |. in his struggles
against the Emperor Charles ", Dul
Il did not become the permanent royal
banner until Henry w., the nrst BOUT
, hon. assembled the throne In loS9.
The trIcolor Of the French revolution
was n compromise. The cockades o.
, the revolutionists were composed o
two colors. the red of the Paris com
mune and the blue Of the ancient mon
. archv. In the troubled times just pre-
: ceding the deposition and execution o
4 Louis XVI. Lafayette, to signify TN
A desire of the people for a reconciha
q ton with their king, added the boui
hon white to the cockade. The tricolo
:. no national emblem was adopted o
e the convention In 1904.
1. Long before this. however, the IT
% color had been the national nag
n Holland The Dutch were In fact tn
Ie first to use II. When the United Pro-
8. ,nces gained their independence frol
81 snain in the sixteenth century, accor'
le ing to a favorite old story which cal
er not be authenticated, they Invited he
G. rv of Navarro to choose their color
to and he suggested orange, blue al
10 white. Whether he selected THIS COL
II. b,notion or not. such were the colo
u. Of Holland until some time In the Sc
N enteenth century, when the orange WI
lie replaced by red. When William
Orange became king Of England
1908 he crossed the channel under Z
red. white and blue.
tn The early inhabitants OF Englan
like those of other countries, USED e.
he blematic devices Of one kind or 0
ell other. that of the Saxons being wn
us horse The introduction Of flags IL
'n' England Is ascribed to the misslona
ltn ST Augustine and his followers, W
lH after the conversion Of King EthelDe
1t according to the Venerable Bede,
tered Canterbury in procession cna
ing and bearing small banners.
ses Since the fourteenth century the cr'
We NJ st George has been the emblem
ioi the British nation. Before that time
no' was worn on the armor by the c
is saders. among whom 1t came 10
vi" known as the Jack" During
VI! bloody civil wars Of the fifteenth c
'e' tury It was practically superseded
the roses. white and red, and In i
by proclamation Of James l. II
finally replaced by red flag WIN
ny iack In the upper inside corner.
rod standard of Great Britain did
III attain its present form, however u
IRA after the union with Ireland In Il
In BY parliamentary enactment IN
So the present union jack was brou
Ioy- into being by the addition OF the CT
the of st. Patrick.
~ Waving flags are said to have b
49,, first brought to Spain by the Sarac'
wy The present Spanish colors, red
yellow. came from the old shields
stai CASTLE and Aragon.
sed The Austrian black and yellow
the the colors of the Holy Roman Eml
ad. They were adopted so the story s
FOR. bv Frederick Barbarossa. whose Ia
was captured at ceremony IN Nj
'''N by the black and gold flooring OF
hall.
The crescent was originally the
300, cial mark of Constantinople. where
cat centuries 1t was used as a Chris
OF symbol. There 1t was that the L
first found 1t when they captured
sued CITY in 1853. Even today 1t ma!
pub found side by side with the eros
they the churches in Moscow and G
the Russian cities. where it is used to
line cate the Byzantine origin OF the
rider sian faith.-New York Tribune.
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