The original Confederate flag’s similarity to the Union flag quickly confused soldiers, who often couldn’t tell the difference between the two on smoke-filled battlefields. Confederate Gen.

European union flag fly along with Nordic national flags Denmark,Sweden,Norway, Island and Finland on Jan. 14, 2012. (Photo by Francis Dean/Corbis via Getty Images) Slavic nations like Russia ...

otherwise known as the union flag, above Buckingham Palace, had been lowered to half-mast. The union flag flies at half-mast at Buckingham Palace on September 13, 2022, in London, following the ...