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10 years 9 months ago #367
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10 years 9 months ago #368
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10 years 9 months ago #369
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10 years 9 months ago - 10 years 9 months ago #370
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That's not far off. The white flag as a sign of surrender comes from the colonization of the Americas, particularly Canada and the US. The French had built a series of fortresses near the Atlantic coast to protect their trading stronghold from the British (the most notable of which was the fortress at Louisbourg ). Eventually the British came, however, and whenever a french fortress was taken by the British, the British would hang a white flag from the flagpole to tell others in the area that the fortress had been taken.
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That's not far off. The white flag as a sign of surrender comes from the colonization of the Americas, particularly Canada and the US. The French had built a series of fortresses near the Atlantic coast to protect their trading stronghold from the British (the most notable of which was the fortress at Louisbourg ). Eventually the British came, however, and whenever a french fortress was taken by the British, the British would hang a white flag from the flagpole to tell others in the area that the fortress had been taken.

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10 years 9 months ago - 10 years 9 months ago #371
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"Straight and narrow is the path."
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"Straight and narrow is the path."
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10 years 9 months ago - 10 years 9 months ago #372
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