Usage of "flag of truce"

português

Flag consisting of a piece of white cloth that is hoisted to signal surrender or to ask for a truce.

Uso de flag of truce em inglês

The governor immediately sent the letter across, with a flag of truce. 
 Orange and Green: A Tale of the Boyne and Limerick 

Forrest sent in a flag of truce, with a demand for surrender. 
 Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 02 (of 15), America... 

Gosse advanced waving a red bandanna handkerchief as a flag of truce. 
 Man-Size 

Get the gig ready, with an ensign and a flag of truce. 
 The Three Lieutenants 

This was a flag of truce, desiring to communicate with the pale-faces. 
 Wyandotté; Or, The Hutted Knoll: A Tale 

We must take out a flag of truce and treat with them. 
 The Exiles and Other Stories 

They chose William Bateman to go forward with a flag of truce. 
 The Lions of the Lord: A Tale of the Old West 

He was finally captured by his captors violating a flag of truce. 
 The Choctaw Freedmen and the Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academ... 

Pee-wee accepted this as a flag of truce, and felt somewhat reassured. 
 Pee-wee Harris on the Trail 

He therefore would receive a flag of truce, and listen to proposals. 
 Rattlin the Reefer 

A flag of truce should ever be held sacred, answered Mr Ferris. 
 The Missing Ship: The Log of the "Ouzel" Galley 

Lord Nelson, therefore, sent a flag of truce, with the following letter- 
 The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, V... 

You have, I hope, therefore, come up with a flag of truce? 
 The Three Commanders 

Doesn't make your flag of truce worth a good damn, does it? 
 Death angel 

Some one in Quebec had fired on the flag of truce. 
 The Bastonnais / Tale of the American Invasion of Canada in 1775... 

State what was done while the flag of truce was in. 
 History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 /... 

Translations for flag of truce

português

Significados de flag of truce em inglês