The Flags of the World/Index

INDEX.

A.

Aargau, flag of   116

"Acta Sanctorum," the   38

Admiral's flag, R.N.   56

Admiralty, flag of the   71, 72

Agincourt, battle of   106

Agincourt, flags at   5

Agnus Dei, as device on flag   22

Ailsa, flag of the yacht   73

Allan Line, flag of the   75

Allotment of code signals   138

Ambulance flag   117

Ancient Irish harp   33

Anchor as badge   63, 71, 87, 100, 114

Andrew, cross of St.   4, 35, 42, 43, 45, 53, 116

Andrew, St., of Scotland   37, 42, 44

Andrew, St., of Russia   103, 104

Andrew, St., order of   102

Anne, Standard of Queen   35

Annunciation on flag   4

Answering pennant   134

Antelope as a device   16

Antiquity, standards of   2

Antwerp, device of city of   111

Anvil as device on flag   7

Argentine Republic, flag of   124

Armada, defeat of the   3

Arms of Canada   81, 82

Arms of Washington   91

Army, flags of the   61

Army signalling   127, 128, 129

Arragon, arms of   111

Articles of War   56

Assaye, special flag for   65

Assyrian standards   2

Athene, owl of   2

Australian Steam Navigation Company's house flag   74

Austro-Hungarian flags 101, 102

Avondale flag   43

Awdeley, standard of Sir John   17

B.

Bacon on sea-power   84, 85

Baden, flag of   101

Badge   9, 13, 15, 21, 62, 66, 67, 83, 84, 117

Bahamas, Badge of the   84

Balmoral tartan   1

Banner, its nature   10

Banneroll, kind of flag   18

Bannockburn, battle of   44

Barbadoes, badge of   83

Barcelona, arms of   111

Bar, banner of Sir John de   11

Bardolph, banner of Sir Hugh   11

Basel, flag of city of   116

Bavaria, flag of   101, 119

Bayeux tapestry, flags represented in   19, 22

Bear as a device   1, 2

Beau-seant of Knights Templars   24

Beaver as a device   1, 30

Bede on flags   4

"Beehive of the Romish Church"   3

Bees of the Napoleons   106, 109

Belgium, flags of   23, 118

Bermuda, badge of   84

Berne, flag of   116

Beverley, flag of   5

Birkenhead, burning of the   64

Black and white flag of Prussia   98

Black as a flag colour   7, 24, 25

Black Swan, device of the   84

Blackwall line of shipping   74

Black Watch, the   62

Blenheim, battle of   64, 66

Blue blanket of Edinburgh   42

Blue ensign   40, 56, 73, 78, 83

Board of Trade, flag of the   71

Bohemia, flag of   102

Bolivia, flag of   23, 123

Bombardment of Scio   118

Boots and shoes on a flag   7

Bordered Jack   48, 58

Botetourte, banner of Sir John   11

Bourbon kings, the   107

Brabant, lion of   112

Brass of Sir John Daubernoun   18

Brazil, flag of   23, 24, 123

Brazil, pendant of   20

Bremen, flag of port of   99

Britannia, flag of the yacht   73

British East Africa, device of, 84

British Guiana, badge of   84

British North Borneo, badge of   84

Broad pendant   56

Brunswick, arms of   35

Brunswick, flag of   101

Buckles as device on flag   7

Bugle-horn as a device   15

Builder's square on flag   6

Bulgaria, flag of   121

Bunker's Hill, battle of   87

Bunting as material for flags   22

Burgee, variety of flag   19, 73

Burgundy, flag of   111, 112

Burning of rebel colours   70

Butler's "Lives of the Fathers"   39

Butterflies as a flag device   17

C.

Campbell on the national flag   54

Canada, Dominion of   10

Canada, flags of Dominion of   80

Canadian Pacific steamship line   75

Candlemakers' flag, the   7

Canterbury Cathedral, flags in   66

Cantonal colours   116

Cape of St. Martin   105

Cape St. Vincent, action off   41

Castle Line, house flag of the   75

Castle on flag as a device   111, 112

Cavalry standards   65

Cavers standard, the   43

Ceylon, device of the Colony of   84

Chapel of Royal College, Chelsea, flags in   3, 66

Chaucer, quotation from   12, 18

Cheering to order   102

Cherbourg, flag of port of   75

Chili, flag of   121

Chili, pendant of   20

Chinese flags   125

Chrysanthemum flag of Japan   124

Coastguard flag   134

Codes for flag-signalling   136

Coffee plant on flag   123

Coins, devices on   2, 88, 90, 120

Colombia, flag of United States of   122

Colonial Defence Act   78, 79, 80

Colonial flags   20, 40, 78

Colonies, value of   76, 77

Colour party   64

Colours, Queen's   61, 65, 67

Colours, regimental   61, 65, 67

Colours used in flags   23

Columbus, flag flown by   86, 111

Commodore's broad pendant   56

Commonwealth flags   48

Company or house flags   74, 75

Compasses as a device   6

Compass signals   136

Confederate States of America   27, 94, 95

Congo Free State, flag of   126

Conquest of Ireland   33

Consecrated banner   3, 103

Constantine, Labarum of   2, 3, 51

Consular flag   71

Consul-General, Russian, flag of   104

Cornet, variety of flag   19, 130

Costa Rica, flag of   122

Courtenay, banner of Sir Hugh de   11

Covenanter flags   24, 43, 91

Crescent as device   11, 15, 88, 95, 119, 120

Croatia, flag of   102

Cromwell, arms of   35

Cromwell, funeral of   19

Cross of St. Andrew   4, 35, 42, 43, 45, 53, 116

Cross of St. George   4, 10, 14, 16, 35, 39, 41, 45, 48, 53, 84, 87, 116

Cross of St. Patrick   4, 51, 53, 116

Crown of Charlemagne   35

Crowns of Ireland   33

Cuba, flag of   124

Culloden, battle of   70

Cunard Line, house flag of   74

Customs Department, flag of   71

Czarina, standard of the   102

Czar, standard of the   102, 103

D.

Dalmatia, flag of   102

Dannebrog, the   115

Demerara and Berbice Steamship Company   74

Denis, St., flag of   5

Denmark, flags of   115

Derivation of word flag   8

Desjardins on French flag   107

Devitt and Moore house flag   74

Diana, crescent of   119

Diplomatic Service, flag of   71

Dipping the flag   25

Dragon as a device   17, 125

Drayton, quotation from   15

Durham, St. Cuthbert of   5

E.

Eagle as a device   41, 91, 93, 94, 98, 101, 102, 105, 109, 110

Early Spanish flags   27

East Africa Company, German   100

East India Company, flag of   47, 89

East Kent Regiment, flags of   66

East Prussia, flag of   98

Ecclesiastical flags often pictorial   4

Ecuador, flag of   124

Eddystone Light flag signal   137

Edinburgh Cathedral, flags in   68

Edinburgh Trained Bands   42

Edmonson on flag usage   9

Edward the Confessor, arms of   34

Edward III., "King of the Seas"   25

Edward VI., funeral of   17

Egypt, ancient, standards of   2

Egyptian flags, modern   120, 121

Electoral bonnet   52

Elephant as a device   65, 84, 125

Elephant, order of the   115

Elizabeth, funeral of Queen   17

Elizabeth, thanksgiving service   3

Elsass, flag of   101

Emperor of Germany   98

Ensign   8

Ermine as a flag device   24

Errors in flag-making   58, 59, 60

Excise, flag of the   71

Eye as a device on flag   7

F.

Facings of the regiment   62

Falcon as a device   17

Favyn "Le Théâtre d'honneur"   4, 107

Fiji, badge of colony   84

Files represented on trade flag   7

Flag-book of the Admiralty   120

Flag-lore valuable   58

Flagons on trade flag   7

Flag-signalling   127, et seq.

Flanders, badge of   111

Flashing messages at night   134

Fleur-de-lys   21, 34, 36, 106, 108, 109, 112

Flodden, battle of   6

Florida, settlement of   86

Florin, arms on the   32

Fly of a flag, the   10

Fork and spoon on a flag   7

Four-flag signals   137

France, flags of   1, 21, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110

Franco-German War of 1870   97

Fribourg, flag of   116

Frogmorton, standard of   17

Funeral obsequies, flags at   6, 17, 18, 19, 22

G.

Garter, order of the   38

Gautier on the Swiss flag   116

Geneva Convention   117

Geneva, flag of   116

Geographical signals   137

George, St., cross of   4, 10, 14, 16, 35, 39, 41, 45, 48, 53, 84, 87, 116

George, St., of England   36, 37, 116

George, St., of Russia   102, 103

German Unity   97, 98

Germany, flags of   99, 100

Globe on flag   63, 87

Gnu as a flag device   84

Golden Legend, the   37

Gonfalon, kind of flag   8

Government, departments, flags of   71

Governor-General of Canada, flag of   81

Governors of Colonies, flags of   81, 84

Grandison, banner of Sir William de   11

Gray, quotation from   9

Greater Britain   77

Great Seal of Canada   83

Great Seal of Richard I.   30

Greece, flag of   119

Green and white of the Tudors   21

Green as a flag colour   23, 43, 113, 123

Greyhound as a device   17

Growth of the Italian State   113

Guards, flags of the   65

Guatemala, flag of   23, 122

Guidon, form of flag   21

Guild flags   6, 7

Guinea Company's flag   27

H.

Half-mast high, flags at   25

Hamburg, flag of city of   99

Hammer represented on flag   6, 7

Hand as a device   2

Hanover, arms of   29, 35, 52

Hanover, flag of   101

Hanseatic League, flag of   99

Harfleur, siege of   12

Harleian MS. on flags   16, 21

Harp of Ireland   4, 29, 32, 33, 34, 49, 54

Hayti, flag of   23, 124

Heavenly succour   37, 42, 44, 106, 115

Henry V., standard of   16

Henry VII., flags in chapel of   12

Heraldic Exhibition, Edinburgh   43

Heraldic requirements in flag devising   23, 54

Hesse, flag of   101

Highland tartans   1

"History and principles of Heraldry"   10

Hohenzollerns, arms of the   99

Hoisting one flag over another   25

Hoist of the flag, the   10

Holderton, banner of Sir John de   11

Holland, flags of   117, 118

Hong Kong, badge of colony of   84

Horse as a device   2

Horsham, political colours at   8

House flags   24, 74, 75

House of Orange, flag of   117

Hungary, flag of   23, 102

I.

Idolatrous emblem   87

Illiterate voters, mistakes of   7, 8

Imperial Eagle   66, 101, 102

Inscriptions on flags   3, 4, 13, 15, 16, 24, 35, 41, 43, 49, 66, 88, 90, 93, 122, 123

International signal code   133, 136, 137, 138

Investiture of knight-banneret   14

Invocation of saints   3

Ireland joined to Great Britain   32

Iron cross of Germany   100

Isandlwana, battle of   63, 69

Istria, flag of   102

Italy, flags of   23, 113, 114

J.

James II., statue of   35

Japan, flags of   124

Jerusalem, arms of city of   114, 115

Jewish standards   3

Joan of Arc, standard of   4

Jove, Eagle of   2

K.

Karlaverok, siege of   11, 18

Kasan, arms of province of   102

Katharine of Arragon flag-making   13

Kempenfeldt's signal code   130

Key as a device on flag   15

Khorsabad, slabs from   2

Kingdom of Hungary   101

King's Own Borderers   63

Kiow, arms of province of   102

Knights-banneret   14

Knights of the Bath, banners of   12

Knights of the Garter, banners of   12

Knights Templars, banner of the   24

Köbel, book on costume and flags   101

Korea, flag of kingdom of   125

L.

Labarum of Constantine   2, 3, 51

Labuan, badge of colony of   84

La Haye's book on flags   87

Lamartine on the red flag   109

Lancer pennon   14, 19

Landing of Charles II.   47

Land of the rising sun   124

Laurel wreath on flag   49, 81

Lawyers, flag of the   7

Leeward Isles, badge of the   84

Leon and Castile, arms of   86, 110, 111

Liberia, flag of   125

Liberty, figure of   94, 118

Lion of Scotland   4, 29, 31, 34

Lions of England   4, 29, 30, 34

Livery colours   7, 14, 17, 21

Livy on Vexillum   2

Lloyd's signal stations   139

Locksmiths, flag of the   7

London, port of, flag signal   137

London Trained Bands   41, 67

Lone Star State, flag of the   95

Lord Cardross, flag of   16

Lord High Admiral of England   72, 80

Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, flag of   71

Lord Mayor's Show, flags at   19, 20

Loss of colours at Edgehill   65

Lothringen, flag of   101

Louisiana, flag of State of   94

Louisiana, settlement of   86

Lozenges as a device on flag   41

Lubeck, flag of city of   99

Lucerne, flag of   116

Lunenburg, arms of   35

Lydgate, the duty of chivalry   12

M.

Maccabees, standard of the   3

Machyn, diary of   6, 17, 21, 39, 111

Mackay, extract from   57, 58

Mail service flag   72

Mainsail emblazoned as banner   12

Malplaquet, battle of   64

Man-of-war pendant   20, 78, 93, 110, 111, 121, 129, 135

Maple-leaf of Canada   30, 81

Marmion, quotation from   8, 18

Martin, description of Western Islands   1

Marseillaise, the   98

Marseilles, flag of port of   75

Martlets on flag   34

Massachusetts, flag of   3, 87

Mayflower, sailing of the   87

Mecklenburg-Strelitz, flag of   101

Mediæval spelling   6, 22

Mediterranean and New York Company   75

Merchant flag, red ensign   40, 47, 58, 73, 80

Merchant Shipping (Colours) Act   58

Metal-workers, flag of the   7

Meteorological signals   135

Mexico, flag of   23, 123

Milton, quotation from   8

Minotaur as a device   2

Minden, battle of   64

"Mirror for Magistrates," quotation from   15

Mohammedan flags often green   24

Monasteries, flags of   5

Monk, funeral of General   18, 22

Monogram, sacred, on flag   3, 42, 51

Monthermer, banner of Sir Ralph   11

Morse alphabet for signalling   127, 128, 129

Mottoes on flags   3, 4, 13, 15, 16, 24, 35, 41, 43, 49, 66, 88, 90, 93, 122, 123

Mutiny in the Royal Navy   25

N.

Napoleon, flags at tomb of   4

Nassau, arms of   29, 35

Natal, device of colony of   84

Naval Discipline Act   56

Naval Exhibition at Chelsea   41

Navy signalling   129, et seq.

Nelson, funeral of   18, 22

Neville's Cross, battle of   5

New Brunswick, arms of province of   82

Newfoundland, badge of colony of   83

New Granada, flag of   122

New Guinea, badge of colony of   84

New South Wales, badge of colony of   84

New Zealand, badge of   84

New Zealand Shipping Company   24, 75

Night signalling at sea   134

Nisbet on the tressure   32

Norie's "Flags of All Nations"   26

Northallerton, sacred flags at   5

North German Confederacy   99

Norway, flag of   115

Nova Scotia, arms of province of   82

Nova Scotia, settlement of   87

Novgorod, arms of province of   102

O.

Obsolete flags   8, 22, 26

Ontario, arms of province of   82

Orange flag   8

Orange Free State, flag of   23, 125

Order of Black Eagle   100

Ordnance Department flag   71

Orient Steam Navigation Company   24, 134

Oriflamme   105

Oudenarde, battle of   64

Owl of Athene   2

P.

Palmetto palm on flag   94, 95

Pamiot Azof, flag of the   104

Papal States, flag of the   23, 114, 115

Paraguay, flag of   122

Paris, arms of city of   109

Passion symbols on flag   6

Patrick, St., life of   51, 52

Pendant or pennant,   20, 40, 78, 93, 110, 111, 121, 129, 135

Peninsular and Oriental Company, flag of   74

Pennoncelle or pencel   19

Pennon, nature of the   14, 18, 19

Pepys, extract from diary of   55

Percy, banner of Sir Henri de   11

Percy lion   11, 15

Percy motto   15, 16

Percy standard   15

Persepolis, sculptures of   2

Peruvian flag   123

Pictorial flags   4

Pilgrim Fathers, the   87

Pilot flag   48, 100, 104, 134

Pine-apple as a device   84

Pine-tree flag   87, 88, 89

Plantagenet livery colours   21

Pliny on Roman standards   2

Poland, flag of   105

Political colours   7

Political devices on flags   4

Pomerania, flag of   101

Popham's signal code   131

Portcullis as a device   21

Portobello, capture of   41

Ports, flags of   75

Portugal, flags of   112, 113

Pottery, representation of flags on   89

Precedence a difficulty   28

Presentation of colours   3, 66

President, U.S.A., flag of   93, 94

Printed flags   23

Protectorate flag, the   50

Prussian eagle   98

Q.

Quarantine flag, the   25, 59

Quebec, arms of province of   82

Queen's colour   61, 65

Queensland, badge of colony of   83

Queen's Regulations   54, 55, 64, 71, 78, 81

R.

Ramilies, battle of   64

Rattlesnake flag   1, 13, 87, 88

Raven of the Danes   13

Rebel colors burnt   70

Red ensign   40, 47, 58, 73, 80

Red flag of revolution   25, 59, 109

Relics of saints worked into flag   5

Religious character of early flags   4, 5, 22

Religious service   3, 103

Revenue flag, U.S.A.   93

Rey on the French flag   107

Rhode Island, flag of   87

Richard II., standard of   17

Ridre, standard of Sir William de   11

Riga, flag of port of   75

Ripon, St. Wilfrid's banner at   5

Rolls of arms   10

Rome, standards of ancient   2, 42

Roses as a flag device   16, 21

Rotterdam, flag of port of   75

Rouen, capture of   5, 38, 112

Roumania, flag of   121

Royal Colonial Institute   76

Royal Horse Artillery of 1813   19

Royal Marines   63

Royal Naval Reserve   40, 56, 57, 73, 79, 139

Royal Navy, flag code of the   133

Royal Oak on coins   88

Royal Standard   11, 29, 34, 48, 54, 59, 78

Royal United Service Museum   24, 125, 130, 131

Royal Yacht Squadron, flag of the   72

Royston, political colours at   8

Russia, flags of   24, 102, 103, 104, 105

Russian American Company's flag   26

S.

Sacred monogram on flag   3

Salique law, operation of   36

Salmon as a flag device   82

Saluting the flag   26, 55, 56

San Salvador, flag of   124

Sarawak, flag of   125

Sardinia, flag of   26

Savoy, flag of   27, 113, 123

Saxe-Coburg Gotha, flag of   101

Saxony, arms of   35

Saxony, flag of   100

Schomburg-Lippe, flag of   101

School of Army Signalling   128

"Scotland for ever"   70

Scots Greys 66

Scottish grievance as to arms   31, 45, 46, 53

Scottish variation of Union flag   46

Scott, quotation from   8, 29

Servia, flag of   121

Seven Champions of Christendom, 38

Seventeenth Lancers   66

Shakespeare, quotation from   15, 37

Shannon and Chesapeake duel   90

Shears as a device on trade flag   7

Siam, flag of kingdom of   125

Signal-book of Chesapeake   133

Signalling by flags   20, 23, 127, et seq.

Simon de Montfort, banner of, 12

Skull and cross-bones device   66

Sledge flags of Arctic expedition   16

South Australia, badge of   83

South Carolina, flag of   87, 88, 94

Southern Cross   30, 80, 96

Sovereignty of the seas   25, 26

Spain, flags of   1, 24, 110, 111, 112

Spelling, mediæval liberty of   6, 22

Spenser, quotation from   36

Sphinx as a badge   62, 63

Spoon and fork on trade flag   7

Standard, nature of the   14

St. Andrew, cross of   4, 35, 42, 43, 45, 53, 116

Stars and bars, C.S.A.   95, 96

Stars and stripes, U.S.A.   59

St. Denis, flag of   105

Stewart on tartans   1

St. Gallen, flag of   116

St. George, cross of   4, 10, 14, 16, 35, 39, 41, 45, 48, 53, 84, 87, 116

St. Helena, badge of colony of   84

Storm signals by flags   135

"Story of Thebes," quotation from   12

St. Patrick, cross of   4, 51, 53, 116

Straits Settlement, device of   84

Streamer, variety of flag   20, 21

Strictly confidential signals   133

Stuart, livery colours of house of   21

Sun as a device   2, 17

Swallow-tail flag   14, 18, 93, 110, 115, 116, 130

Swan, black, of Western Australia   84

Sweden, flag of   115

Switzerland, flag of   116

Swynnerton, standard of Sir Thomas de   16

Sydney, Sir Philip, funeral of   18

Sidney, Sir Philip, on war   19

Symbols to express colours   74

T.

Tartans, Scottish   1

Tasmania, device of colony of   84

Telegraph Department, flag of   71

Tessin, flag of Canton   117

Teutonic, armament of the   57

Teutonic order, cross of the   100

Texas, flag of the State of   95

Texel, flag of the port of   75

"The late unpleasantness"   96

"Theorike and Practike of Modern Warres"   61

Third Dragoons   66

Thistle as a flag device   42, 82

Three-flag signals   137

Tiger of Korea   125

Titus, the arch of   2

Tobacco plant on flag   123

Torpedo practice flag   133

Trafalgar, Nelson's famous signal   132, 133

Trajan's column, standards on   2

Transport service, flag of the   71, 104

Transvaal, flag of the   126

Trefoils as a device   41

Tressure of Scotland, the   31, 32

Tricolor of France   40, 108

Trinidad, badge of colony of   84

Trinity, banner of the   5, 6

Trowel on guild flag   6

Trumpet banners   12, 20

Tudor flags   17

Tughra device, the   120, 121

Tunisian flags   120

Turkey, flags of   24, 119, 120

Twenty-fourth regiment   62

Tyrol, flag of the   102

U.

Union between England and Scotland 45

Union between Great Britain and Ireland 50, 52

Union flag   1, 4, 45, 47, 50, 54, 61

Union flag of Sweden and Norway, 116

Union Jack   47, 48

Union Steamship Company's flag   75

United Italy   113

United States of America, flag of   86, 89, 90, 91

Universal code for signalling   28

Urgency flag signals   136

Uri, flag of Canton of   116

Uruguay, flag of   122

Utilisation of liners as cruisers   57

V.

Valence, banner of Sir Aymer de   11

Valkyrie, flag of the yacht   73

Variation in size a sign of rank   17

Venezuela, flag of   23, 122, 123

Venice, obsolete flags of   27

Versailles, palace of   97

Vessels spoken at sea   139, 140

Viceroy of India, flag of   65, 81

Victoria Cross   63

Victoria, flag of colony of   80

Victualling Department, flag of   71

Virginia, settlement of   86

Virgin Mary on flag   6

Vocabulary signals   137

Voldermirz, arms of   102

Vowel flags objectionable   138, 139

W.

Waldeck, flag of   101

War cries   37

War songs   95, 98

Warriors' Chapel at Canterbury   66, 67

Washington, arms of   91, 93

"Watch upon the Rhine"   98

Waterloo, battle of   70

Weather signals   135, 137

Wellington, funeral of Duke of   18, 22

West Africa, device of   84

Western Australia, device of   84

Western Australia, governor's flag   81

West Prussia, flag of   98

White cross of France   107

White elephant of Siam   125

White ensign   40, 55, 59, 72

White horse of Hanover   63, 66

White horse of Kent   36

White Star Line, house flag of 57, 75

Why called "Jack"   48

William III., standard of   35

Wreath on flag   63, 66, 81

Wolf as a device   2

Wurtemburg, flag of   101

Y.

Yacht flags   100, 138

Yellow flag, its significance   24, 59

York, livery colours of house of   21