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The badge of the royal banner of England till those of St. Patrick and St. Andrew were added.
“The fall of Rouen (1419) was the fall of the whole province … and the red cross of England waved on all the towers of Normandy.”—Howitt: History of England, vol. i. p. 545.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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