[Footnote 18: Most commonly on their shoulders, in gold, or
silk, or cloth sewed on their garments. In the first
crusade, all were red, in the third, the French alone
preserved that color, while green crosses were adopted by
the Flemings, and white by the English, (Ducange, tom. ii.
p. 651.) Yet in England, the red ever appears the favorite,
and as if were, the national, color of our military ensigns
and uniforms.]