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ARMY OF THE EMPEROR OF GERMANY AND OF HIS ALLIES
                    War cry: St. Polo (St. Paul)

                        Firth Squadron
            Arrighetto with three thousand barons and knights
    Ensign: a black eagle on a field of gold;  on the shield a maiden with a palm
                          in her hand

                       Second Squadron
       A nephew of the King of Hungary with five thousand Hungarians
    Ensign: lilies of gold upon an azure ground with white and crimson bands
                        Third Squadron
               The King of Bohemia with seimila knights
          Ensign: un leone bianco con due code in campo vermiglio

                        Fourth Squadron
       The Seri of the Lippe Duke of Austria with seven thousand knights
    Ensign:  a two-headed white eagle on a red ground with white spots, and a
     white mountain on an azure field with a sword set in the hill aforesaid.
                        Fifth Squadron
    Count of Savoy and Count William of Luxemburg with three thousand five
                        hundred knights
     Ensign: a brown bear on a yellow ground, and red and white quarterings

                        Sixth Squadron
     Il patriarca di Aquileia with one thousand and four hundred counts and
                 barons and knights with golden spurs
        Ensign: a mitre on a crimson ground between two white croziers
                       Seventh Squadron
           The Emperor with four thousand Germans born to arms
    Ensign: the ensign of Charlemagne, a tongue of flame upon a field of gold
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