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- Nailing_the_colours abstract "Nailing the colours (also nailing the colours to the mast or nailing the flag) is a practice dating back to the Age of Sail that expresses a defiant refusal to surrender, and willingness to fight to the last man.During the Age of the Sail, ships would legally fight only while flying their national flag. Flying another flag was considered to be a legitimate ruse de guerre only until the beginning of the fight. Striking the colours was a sign of surrender. Indeed, when cannon shots fell a ship's flag, her opponent would cease firing and inquire whether she was capitulating.In contrast, fixing the battle ensign with nails would prevent it from being removed easily, and effectively prevented the surrender. It became an expression of defiance and willingness to force oneself to fight up to the bitter end.The practice became a powerful and recurrent propaganda tool during the French revolutionary wars. It actually happened on the Tonnant at the Battle of the Nile and on the San Juan Nepomuceno at the Battle of Trafalgar; it was also wrongly claimed that the Vengeur du Peuple had done so during the Third Battle of Ushant, when she had in fact struck. In the Royal Navy, Jack Crawford became famous for the deed.".
- Nailing_the_colours thumbnail Vengeur_nails_the_flag.jpg?width=300.
- Nailing_the_colours wikiPageExternalLink nail-your-colours-to-the-mast.html.
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- Nailing_the_colours wikiPageRevisionID "657216951".
- Nailing_the_colours wikiPageWikiLink Age_of_Sail.
- Nailing_the_colours wikiPageWikiLink Battle_ensign.
- Nailing_the_colours wikiPageWikiLink Battle_of_Mobile_Bay.
- Nailing_the_colours wikiPageWikiLink Battle_of_Trafalgar.
- Nailing_the_colours wikiPageWikiLink Battle_of_the_Nile.
- Nailing_the_colours wikiPageWikiLink Category:Vexillology.
- Nailing_the_colours wikiPageWikiLink French_Revolutionary_Wars.
- Nailing_the_colours wikiPageWikiLink French_revolutionary_wars.
- Nailing_the_colours wikiPageWikiLink French_ship_Vengeur_du_Peuple.
- Nailing_the_colours wikiPageWikiLink Glorious_First_of_June.
- Nailing_the_colours wikiPageWikiLink HMS_Tonnant_(1798).
- Nailing_the_colours wikiPageWikiLink Jack_Crawford_(sailor).
- Nailing_the_colours wikiPageWikiLink Spanish_ship_San_Juan_Nepomuceno.
- Nailing_the_colours wikiPageWikiLink Striking_the_colors.
- Nailing_the_colours wikiPageWikiLink Striking_the_colours.
- Nailing_the_colours wikiPageWikiLink Third_Battle_of_Ushant.
- Nailing_the_colours wikiPageWikiLink With_flying_colours.
- Nailing_the_colours wikiPageWikiLink File:Vengeur_nails_the_flag.jpg.
- Nailing_the_colours wikiPageWikiLinkText "Nail your colours to the mast".
- Nailing_the_colours wikiPageWikiLinkText "To nail one's colours to the mast".
- Nailing_the_colours wikiPageWikiLinkText "colours to be nailed to the mast".
- Nailing_the_colours wikiPageWikiLinkText "nail the British flag".
- Nailing_the_colours wikiPageWikiLinkText "nail the flag".
- Nailing_the_colours wikiPageWikiLinkText "nailed the colours".
- Nailing_the_colours wikiPageWikiLinkText "nailed to the highest mast".
- Nailing_the_colours wikiPageWikiLinkText "nailing her flag".
- Nailing_the_colours wikiPageWikiLinkText "nailing one's flag".
- Nailing_the_colours hasPhotoCollection Nailing_the_colours.
- Nailing_the_colours wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Reflist.
- Nailing_the_colours subject Category:Vexillology.
- Nailing_the_colours hypernym Practice.
- Nailing_the_colours type Company.
- Nailing_the_colours comment "Nailing the colours (also nailing the colours to the mast or nailing the flag) is a practice dating back to the Age of Sail that expresses a defiant refusal to surrender, and willingness to fight to the last man.During the Age of the Sail, ships would legally fight only while flying their national flag. Flying another flag was considered to be a legitimate ruse de guerre only until the beginning of the fight. Striking the colours was a sign of surrender.".
- Nailing_the_colours label "Nailing the colours".
- Nailing_the_colours sameAs m.0jwzgng.
- Nailing_the_colours sameAs Q17116074.
- Nailing_the_colours sameAs Q17116074.
- Nailing_the_colours wasDerivedFrom Nailing_the_colours?oldid=657216951.
- Nailing_the_colours depiction Vengeur_nails_the_flag.jpg.
- Nailing_the_colours isPrimaryTopicOf Nailing_the_colours.