Significados de english ensign en inglés

They hoisted the English ensign, but she showed no colours in return.

Just then the English ensign was seen to descend from the peak.

I set the Yankee bunting, and she showed the English ensign, in return.

To encourage them, show them the English ensign, Israel, my lad.

We had meantime hoisted the English ensign to our peak.

A little later, that signal was hauled down, and an English ensign and pennant were substituted.

Two hundred years before, the English ensign kissed the air in pride, unchallenged by the haughty Spaniard.

Calling my headman, I ordered him to hoist the English ensign on my tall flagstaff in the courtyard.

Then he hoisted the English ensign over the French, and immediately the stranger yawed and fired a bow-chaser.

When they returned, they found that the English ensign had been torn down and the French flag raised.

The flag, though tattered and patched, looked very like an English ensign with the jack torn out of it.

As she came on, he hoisted on the stump of the main-mast the English ensign reversed, the signal of distress.

When it cleared for an instant, we made out that she had an English ensign reversed secured to the main-rigging.

At St. Joseph's an English ensign with fourteen soldiers was killed by the Pottawatomies, but nowhere did Pontiac obtain any real successes.

What signifies a flag, Daniele, when a French hand can hoist an English ensign as easily as the king of Inghilterra himself?

It was a Greek pilot, pressed on board the Egyptian, who ran up the English ensign, to prevent our ship from firing again.