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Don Carleton said...
This sounds like one for Don Hagist!
Personally, I'm skeptical that any senior British officers in the American War went into battle with their "personal emblems" fluttering above--this sounds like the sort of thing quasi-independent barons in medieval armed forces, not (early)-modern British Army leaders, would have done.
Also, if it's true that the Howe brothers were reluctant warriors when it came to prosecuting the military suppression of the rebellion, it seems even less likely that Sir William would have been beating his metaphorical chest by waving his banner around as he went into action against his American cousins....
Jul 17, 2019, 4:10:38 PM