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Definition of Battle flag
1. Noun. A flag that leads troops into battle.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Battle Flag
Literary usage of Battle flag
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Poems of American History by Burton Egbert Stevenson (1908)
"And when the day came up the stair Complete across a carven chair Hung Betsy's
battle flag. Like shadows in the evening gray The Continentals filed away, ..."
2. Days and Deeds: A Book of Verse for Children's Reading and Speaking by Elizabeth Shepard Butler Stevenson (1906)
"... And when the day came up the stair Complete across a carven chair Hung Betsy's
battle flag. Like shadows in the evening gray The Continentals filed away ..."
3. History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 by James Ford Rhodes (1919)
"6 Cleveland encountered another trouble in the return- of-the-battle-flag order.
The Adjutant-General of the Army, in a wise and graceful letter to William ..."
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