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Updated: May 16, 2025
The first department they entered contained exhibits of metal work, gun and cartridge-making machines, campaign materials, and battleflags. All were interesting to the gentlemen, and to some of the ladies also, but to the others and the children the battleflags were far more so than anything else.
More imposing even than Westminster is St. Paul's. I am not thinking so much of the memorials or the tombs or the statues there, but of the tattered battleflags bearing the names of battles fought by the English in every crack and cranny of the world, from Quebec to Ladysmith, and from Lucknow to Khartum.
The show place in Santa Cruz is the church in which are stored the relics of the sea-fight in which, as a young man, Nelson lost his arm and England also lost two battleflags. As she is not often careless in that respect, it is a surprise to find, in this tiny tucked-away little island, what you will not see in any of the show places of the world.
When the end had come both officers and men surrendered as they had fought, without mental reservation. Sadly they furled and yielded up the bullet-riddled battleflags they had carried so proudly. Now while they manfully accept the hard arbitrament of war, and yield unaffected loyalty to the United States, they make no confession of criminality.
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