War Flag

A war flag (military flag or battle flag) is a variant of a national flag for use by the nation's military forces on land. The nautical equivalent is a naval ensign — the battle ensign. Under this strict sense of the term, few nations currently have war flags, most preferring to use instead their state flag or standard national flag for this purpose.

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Famous quotes containing the words war and/or flag:

    “Borrowers are nearly always ill-spenders, and it is with lent money that all evil is mainly done and all unjust war protracted.”
    —John Ruskin (1819–1900)

    “By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
    Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled,
    Here once the embattled farmers stood
    And fired the shot heard round the world.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)