> > Actually, Rob't, the flag is called a "jack" hence the Union Jack.
Strictly, it's the Union Flag.
> > It is surpriss\ing how many you see upside down, which in any flag language
> > is a sign of surrender
>
> Actually, a sign of 'distress'.
>
You've got to be pretty distressed to be surrendering, but distress it is.
Since only
the Brits knew which way up it went, only the Brits knew it was upside down.
So when
all those ungrateful colonials started getting uppity one could call for
re-inforcements without them knowing.
PaulH.
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