In Alma 46:12 it says that Moroni "rent his coat; and he took a piece thereof, and wrote upon it--In memory of our God, our religion, and freedom, and our peace, our wives, and our children--and he fastened it upon the end of a pole." According to John Sorenson, the Tlascaltec army that opposed Cortez had a great standard "carried" by the commander, although actually the pole was strapped to his back. [John L. Sorenson, An Ancient American Setting for the Book of Mormon, p. 264]