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What is the term for the black flag with skulls and crossbones?
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∙ 11y ago
If you mean of pirate lore, it is known as the Jolly Rodger.
While a pirate crew would fly the black flag to intimidate a potential ship it intended to attack, it was not the only flag used. A crew would first fly the skull and crossbones on a black background so the other ship would be intimidated, if the other ship didn't surrender the crew would lower the black flag and raise a red flag with a skull and cross bones or whatever symbol the ships crew used as a Jolly Rodger. The red flag showed the crew the time for surrender was over and now everyone on the ship would be killed. Pirates did not take prisoners nor did they spare those people that didn't surrender the first offer.
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∙ 10y ago
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∙ 14y agoThe skull and crossbones flag is called the Jolly Roger.
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∙ 11y agoThe pirate's flag with the skull and crossbones is called the Jolly Roger.
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∙ 11y agoJolly Rogger
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∙ 11y agoIt is called the Jolly Roger
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∙ 10y agoIt is called the jolly roger.
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∙ 9y agoJolly Roger
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What is the technical term of the black flag featuring the skull and crossbones that has become inextricaby link with pirate lore?
jolly rogers
What are the origins of the Jolly Roger?
Emmanuel Wynne..................The Jolly Roger is the name now given to any of various flags flown to identify the user as a pirate. The most famous Jolly Roger today is the Skull and Crossbones, a skull over two long bones set in an X arrangement on a black field. Historically, the flag was flown to induce pirates' victims to surrender readily.
What is the term for the black skull and crossbone flag?
It is called the Jolly Roger
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What is the technical term for the black flag featuring the skull and cross bone?
The Jolly Roger
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What is the technical term for the black flag featuring the skull and cross bones that has become inextriablt linked to prirate lore?
The Jolly Rodger
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