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John Colborne

Québec, Lower Canada
Registration of Arms and Supporters
August 15, 2012
Vol. VI, p. 174

Arms of John Colborne

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Blazon

Arms

Argent on a chevron between three bugle horns stringed Sable three mullets Argent on a chief embattled Gules the Army Gold Cross with clasps proper between two mural crowns Or;

Crest

Issuant from a mural crown Or a reindeer’s head Argent attired Or between a branch of laurel and a branch of palm proper;

Supporters

Dexter a soldier of Her Majesty’s 52nd (Oxfordshire) Regiment of Foot holding a musket, sinister an Indigenous person holding in the dexter hand a tomahawk and in the sinister hand a spear proper;

Motto

SPERAT INFESTIS.


Symbolism

Arms

Not available;

Crest

Not available;

Supporters

Not available;

Motto

This Latin phrase means “He hopes in adversity”.