St. George's Cross

Some dressed as crusaders, a few painted head to toe, little kids and old men alike with St. George's Cross etched on their faces.

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EDL supporters wrapped themselves and paraded with Union Jacks and St. George's Cross flags.

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The Crusading knights wore a red cross on a white or silver background to identify them on the battlefield - this ensign became the emblem of the flag England, and was known as the St. George's Cross.

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The Crusading knights wore a red cross on a white or silver background to identify them on the battlefield - this ensign became the emblem of the flag England, and was known as the St. George's Cross.

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And the executioner's great axe flashed in the sun as he swung it aloft, and the next instant the blood of "the Great Martyr" was streaming across the white pavement, as St. George's Cross streams scarlet across the white ground of his flag.

Stories of the Saints by Candle-Light

As she lay to she ran the St. George's Cross up to the main, and saluted it with seventeen guns (wooden ones), out of compliment to Admiral Coote, who shortly receives his promotion.

In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 J. J. Smith

These flags are carried by officers on Arctic expeditions, and are formed of the St. George's Cross with a continuation ending in a swallow-tail in the heraldic colours to which the individual is entitled, and upon this is embroidered his crest.

The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913 Apsley Cherry-Garrard 1922

Readers are already aware that Tolstoy had distinguished himself several times in military exploits, and that he coveted the reward of the soldier's St. George's Cross.

Leo Tolstoy: Childhood and Early Manhood 1906

In her memoirs, the Countess S.A. Tolstaya describes another interesting incident of his Caucasian life-the attitude of Tolstoy to the St. George's Cross.

Leo Tolstoy: Childhood and Early Manhood 1906

It is nationalist in the narrowest sense; and no one knows the beauty and simplicity of the Middle Ages who has not seen St. George's Cross separate, as it was at Creçy or Flodden, and noticed how much finer a flag it is than the Union Jack.

The Crimes of England 1905