Our Country's Flag And the Flags of Foreign Countries
Our Country's Flag And the Flags of Foreign Countries
Holden Edward Singleton
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It was confided to the care of one of the bravest knights, who swore " to carry that standard to the honor and profit of the king and of his realm ; never to lay it down for fear of death or of any hazard ; and to do his duty everywhere." This brave oath was lived up to by a succes- sion of the stoutest knights of France. The miraculous power of the oriflamme was fully believed in by the soldiery. In the war with Flanders, in 1382, it is recorded that " all the morning there had been so great a...nd so dense a fog that scarcely could the men see one another. But so soon as the knight that carried the oriflamme proceeded to unfurl it and to raise the staff aloft, this fog all at once fell and dispersed — the sky becoming pure and clear." Others said that a white dove then appeared and sat on the king's banner for a good omen. It was supposed by the soldiers that an THE FLAGS OF FRANCE. 125 army could not be defeated while it carried the oriflamme, but the troops of St. Louis of France (Louis IX) were defeated in the sev- enth Crusade by the Saracens, the king was made captive, and the oriflamme fell into in- fidel hands (a.d.
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