Citations:pairs of colours


 * 1808, Jacques Peuchet, Campaigns of the Armies of France, in Prussia, Saxony, and Poland, Under the Command of His Majesty the Emperor and King, in MDCCCVI and VII: A Work Destined to Record the Great Events of that Memorable Era, and the Brilliant Achievements of the Generals, Officers, and Soldiers : Accompanied with Biographical Notices Upon Those who Fell During that Memorable Campaign : Also, with Historical and Military Details of the Sieges and Battles which Have Signalized the Different Countries, Through which the French Have Just Marched Their Armies. 1806-1807, page 311:
 * Tliirty-first Bulletin of the Grand Army. &#39;&quot; Berlin, November ... We have in our power, twenty generals, eight hundred officers, twenty-two thou. sand prisoners,  among whom are two thousand artillerists, fifty- four pairs of colours, five  standards ...
 * 1810, Sir Robert Wilson, Brief Remarks on the Character and Composition of the Russian Army: And a Sketch of the Campaigns in Poland in the Years 1806 and 1807, page 221:
 * He there arranged the corps of the army and the divisions, preparatory to a decisive action, such a one as should put ... They have left between three and  4000 prisoners in our hands; seven or eight pairs of colours, and nine pieces of  cannon.
 * 1871, Joachim Hayward Stocqueler, A Familiar History of the British Army, from the Earliest Restoration in 1660 to the the Present Time: Including a Description of the Volunteer Movement, and the Progress of the Volunteer Organisation, page 53:
 * Among the trophies of the conquest of Cape Breton were eleven pairs of colours, which were deposited with much public formality in St Paul&#39;s Cathedral, after  Captain Amherst, the Aide-de- Camp of the General, who took the news of the ...