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A person who fled across the lagoon in late March told Human Rights Watch that the red-cross signs were clearly visible from the government positions across the lagoon, about a kilometer away.

Human Rights Watch: Sri Lanka: Repeated Shelling of Hospitals Evidence of War Crimes 2009

Witnesses said the hospital was marked with a large red cross on one of the buildings facing Sri Lankan army positions across the lagoon, and a red-cross flag flew at the entrance.

Human Rights Watch: Sri Lanka: Repeated Shelling of Hospitals Evidence of War Crimes 2009

Johnson & Johnson and the American Red Cross have resolved their trademark battle over the use of the red-cross emblem, allowing both parties to continue using the insignia they have shared for more than a century.

J&J, Red Cross End Fight 2008

The Canadian Red Cross has vowed to devote its resources to pursuing any and every use of the red-cross symbol, even to the point of threatening companies that make first-aid kits.

Boing Boing: February 5, 2006 - February 11, 2006 Archives 2006

The batteries under fire, the red-cross folk, the county charge — perhaps, above all, Major Bouroche and the operations, all beyond discussion; and every word about the Emperor splendid.

Vailima Letters 2005

From the shattered flagstaff, where it still waved defiantly, though rent and seared by shot and shell, the brave red-cross flag was hauled down and replaced by the gaily fluttering stars and stripes.

Neville Trueman, the Pioneer Preacher : a tale of the war of 1812

The British boarders swarmed on the "Chesapeake's" deck, and soon, with nearly half his crew killed or wounded, she struck her colours to the red-cross flag.

Neville Trueman, the Pioneer Preacher : a tale of the war of 1812

As the old red-cross flag was run again on the flag-staff of Fort George, an exultant cheer went up to heaven, and not a few eyes of those hardy militiamen were filled with tears.

Neville Trueman, the Pioneer Preacher : a tale of the war of 1812

They had encamped themselves on the surrounding kopjes, and these soon became living hives, moving hills, of horses, cattle, and human beings, dotted with some fourteen or fifteen ambulances carrying red-cross flags.

South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899 Louis Creswicke

They turned his house into a hospital, hoisted the red-cross flag on his chimney, and have broken and destroyed everything about his place, killed off his sheep, &c., eaten bottles of fruit, and broken the bottles.

South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899 Louis Creswicke