Our country's flag and the flags of foreign countries (1898)
Holden, Edward Singleton, 1846-1914 · New York : D. Appleton and company · leaf 37
here they are combinedwith the cross of St. Patrick (for Ireland),which is red on a white ground. King James VI of Scotland succeeded to 6 THE AMERICAN FLAG. the throne of England (as King James I) in1603, and the two kingdoms of England andScotland were united at last after centuries ofstrife and… … Fig. 4.—St. Andrews cross—the flag of Scotland since thetime of the Crusades. England still had its flag (St. Georges cross)and Scotland had its flag also (St. Andrewscross). ,AG OP THE AMEK;<);,S u When King Charles I was executed in1649, England became a Commonwealth un-
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