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Imperial, royal, noble,gentry and chivalric ranks in Europe. Thane ( / ˈθeɪn /; Scottish Gaelic: taidhn) [ 1] was the title given to a local royal official in medieval eastern Scotland, equivalent in rank to the son of an earl, [ 2] who was at the head of an administrative and socio-economic unit known as a thanedom or thanage.
The Battle of Winwick was fought on 19 August 1648 between a Scottish Royalist army and a Parliamentarian army during the Second English Civil War. The Scottish army invaded north-west England and was attacked and defeated at Preston on 17 August. The surviving Royalists fled south, closely pursued. Two days later, hungry, cold, soaking wet ...
British Empire flag of the Dangarsleigh War Memorial: An unofficial flag of the British Empire featuring its constituent dominions and India. A unique design was featured at the 1921 opening of the Dangarsleigh War Memorial, and it is still sometimes flown today on special occasions. [10] Post 1930–c. 1945: British Empire flag
A Red Ensign with the Flag of Scotland in the canton . First Union Flag with the Flag of Scotland superior to and overlying the Flag of England . A blue Saint Andrew's Saltire superimposed over a red Saint George's Cross on a white background. Flag of the Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies.
A horizontal tricolour of black, white, and red. The Flag of the German Empire, or Imperial Flag, Realm Flag ( German: Reichsflagge) is a combination between the flag of Prussia and the flag of the Hanseatic League. Starting as the national flag of the North German Confederation, it would go on to be commonly used officially and unofficially ...
A surviving Empire flag from a Royal Museums Greenwich collection. The early 1900s saw many calls for the British Empire to adopt a new flag representative of all its dominions, Crown colonies, protectorates, and territories. Such a role was already fulfilled by the Union Jack of the United Kingdom, but some regions of the empire were beginning ...
In 2017, the Unicode Consortium approved emoji support for the flag of Scotland, alongside the flags of England and Wales, in Unicode version 10.0 and Emoji version 5.0. [ 87 ] [ 88 ] This was following a proposal from Jeremy Burge of Emojipedia and Owen Williams of BBC Wales in March 2016, [ 89 ] [ 90 ] The flag is implemented using the ...
The Royal Arms of Scotland [2] is a coat of arms symbolising Scotland and the Scottish monarchs.The blazon, or technical description, is "Or, a lion rampant Gules armed and langued Azure within a double tressure flory counter-flory of the second", meaning a red lion with blue tongue and claws on a yellow field and surrounded by a red double royal tressure flory counter-flory device.