Citations:pairs of colors


 * 1836, Moyle Sherer (i.e. Joseph Moyle), Military memoirs of Field Marshal, the Duke of Wellington, page 83:
 * 2500 Spaniards were slain, twenty guns, six pairs of colors, and 900 men, were taken on the field. There was present in this battle a battalion of students,  volunteers from the universities of Salamanca and Leon.f &quot; The youths whom  patriotism ...
 * 1992, Civil War Regiments: A Journal of the American Civil War
 * resistance the black regiments fell apart, the refugees streaming back toward the Crater. ... Of the dozen or so pairs of colors dancing on Griffin&#39;s line, those of the  31st and 32nd Maine, the 58th Massachusetts, and the 11th New Hampshire fell  ...
 * 2018, Charles Hotham-Thompson, Operations of the Allied Army Under the Duke of Brunswick: 1757 - 1766, Winged Hussar Publishing (ISBN 9781945430664)
 * We took from them two pieces of cannon, two pairs of colors, and their baggage. ... THE Duke of Württemberg was in person with his corps, which he had just then  drawn up for a feu de joie; so that these regiments were in their best clothing.