The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #40340   Message #578001
Posted By: The_one_and_only_Dai
23-Oct-01 - 09:14 AM
Thread Name: BS: Putting up a white flag
Subject: RE: BS: Putting up a white flag
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Can anybody shed any light on the origins of the white flag as a sign of truce? ISTR that the Marquess of Newcastle's foot regiment in the ECW had a colonel's colour that was plain white... and (Louis XIV?)'s guard regiments carried colours that were a white cross on a white field...