by Dick Bryant
At Waterloo, the three line Battallions each carried two flags. The sides of each flag were different, giving 12 different flags to paint 1st Battalion Duke's Flag: Front side yellow with a large, straight light blue cross, in the center the leaping silver horse and above the horse the inscription "Sieg oder Todt" (Victory or Death), below the horse 2 crossed swords and palm branches, in the fonr corners the silver cipher FW above which a floating wreath of Oak leaves all surrounded by a silver eternal snake biting its tail. Back side divided in 3 horizontal fields yellow-light blue-yellow, in the blue field the duke's coat of arms as center piece, in the four corners the crowned letters FW surrounded by a silver wreath of laurel flowers. (letters silver.) Battalion Flag: yellow with a light blue square, standing on the point as the centerpiece, in the center piece the Duke's coat of arms, in the 4 corners the royal cipher(silver FW). Back side yellow with a light blue square, standing on its point, as center piece, in the center piece the leaping silver horse with the cirucular writing in silver "Mitt Gott fur Furst und Vaterland" (with God for Duke and Fatherland), in the four corners silver horns. 2nd Battalion Duke's Flag: Front side in 3 horizontal fields light blue-yellow-light blue divided in the yellow field standing on a point a black square with the inscription -"Mitt Gott fur Furst und Vaterland, " and encircled (the square) with coronets and the letters FW. Backside divided in three horozontal fields light blue- yellow-light blue in the yellow field, as centerpiece, a black field with silver border and there between palm and laurel branches, the leaping white horse on red background, nothing in the corners. Battallion Flag: Front side divided in three horizontal fields light blue-black-light blue, in the black field as centerpiece the Duke's coat of arms circled by a silver half laurel wreath and the inscription "1st Gott fur ling, wer mag wider uns seyn, ( If God is for us, who would be against us?) Back side divided in three horizontal fields, an centerpiece, in a silver laurel wreath, the crowned gold FW, nothing in the corners. 3rd Line Battalion Duke's Flag: This flag van the same on both sides. Light blue(later completely bleached out.) As centerpiece embroider in white, the leaping horse with a coronet above the horse the inscription "Numquam retrorsum," below the horse a laurel and an oak branch, in the corners the crowned FW. (silver)
Battalion Flag: Front and black with a rect angular yellow center piece, in the centerpiece within the silver oak wreath the inscription "Mit Gott fur Furst und Vaterland 1814" and below the wreath a silver skull.
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