Talk:Striking the colors

Possibly not-so-neutral examples?

The examples provided in the article are quite illustrative of the use of this term. However they're all related to actions involving the US Navy. Can anyone please provide more varied references, just to ensure that this term is universally used? (unless this is not the case, so it should be stated that way). Thanks & Regards, DPdH (talk) 01:46, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

All war of 1812

I'm with DPdH - every one of these examples seems to be from the war of 1812, which seems a limited usage. Caitifty (talk) 04:36, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

How

The entry doesn't explain how one would go about performing the action of "striking the colors." Striking the colors means surrender, but what do you have to do to strike the colors - just lower the flag? If so, that should be explained.--RossF18 (talk) 16:34, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

And a sourced sentence about nailing the colours to the mast (to prevent surrender) would add to the article. Springnuts (talk) 22:57, 21 November 2009 (UTC)

Most of the examples are of Brits Surrendering

it should include more examples that are not from 1812 but based on examples the British and US have similar views on striking their colors mean. The British being the premier naval power in the world at the time. It would help if it had examples from Trafalger where there were the british captured many French and Spanish ships, this would help solidify that Europe had the same view at least. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.71.234.208 (talk) 10:24, 23 May 2011 (UTC)