four-coloured

Updated: May 10, 2025

Our foreign critics, with their misapprehension of the British colonial system, can never realise that whether the four-coloured flag of the Transvaal or the Union Jack of a self-governing colony waved over the gold mines would not make the difference of one shilling to the revenue of Great Britain.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Great Boer War

Our foreign critics, with their misapprehension of the British colonial system, can never realise that whether the four-coloured flag of the Transvaal or the Union Jack of a self-governing colony waved over the gold mines would not make the difference of one shilling to the revenue of Great Britain.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The War in South Africa: Its Cause and Conduct