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  2. List of French flags - Wikipedia

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    Flag of Kingdom of France and French First Republic: 14 July 1790: Revolutionist flag: 21 January 1793: Revolutionist flag: 7 May 1794: Revolutionist flag: Similar to the Pre-Communist Yugoslavia. 1814–1830: Royal flag of Kingdom of France: 1848: Flag of French Second Republic: 1940–1944: Flag of Free France: 1943–1944: Flag of the Milice

  3. French colonial flags - Wikipedia

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    Some of the colonies, protectorates and mandates of the French Colonial Empire used distinctive colonial flags. These most commonly had a French Tricolour in the canton. As well as the flags of individual colonies, the governors-general of French colonies flew a square flag with a blue field and the French ensign in the canton. This flag was ...

  4. History of Portugal (1777–1834) - Wikipedia

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    The history of the kingdom of Portugal and the Algarves, from the First Treaty of San Ildefonso and the beginning of the reign of Queen Maria I in 1777, to the end of the Liberal Wars in 1834, spans a complex historical period in which several important political and military events led to the end of the absolutist regime and to the installation of a constitutional monarchy in the country.

  5. List of Portuguese flags - Wikipedia

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    Flag Date Use Description 1979–present: Flag of the Autonomous Region of the Azores.: This flag is similar to the flag of Portugal used between 1830 and 1910, except that the Portuguese coat of arms has been replaced by nine five-sided stars in a semi-circular arch over a stylized golden goshawk (in Portuguese: Açor), the symbol of the Azores, positioned over the border of the two bands.

  6. Category:1780s in Portugal - Wikipedia

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    About Wikipedia; Contact us; Contribute Help; ... 1780s in the Portuguese Empire (6 C, 1 P) Pages in category "1780s in Portugal"

  7. French colonial empire - Wikipedia

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    The Selling of the Empire: British and French Imperialist Propaganda, 1890–1940 (1985) Chafer, Tony, and Amanda Sackur. Promoting the Colonial Idea: Propaganda and Visions of Empire in France (2002) Confer, Vincent (1964). "French Colonial Ideas before 1789". French Historical Studies. 3 (3): 338– 359. doi:10.2307/285947. JSTOR

  8. 1780 in Portugal - Wikipedia

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    The moonlight Battle off Cape St Vincent, 16 January 1780 by Francis Holman, painted 1780, shows the Santo Domingo exploding, with Rodney's flagship Sandwich in the foreground. 16 January – Battle of Cape St. Vincent, a naval battle off the southern coast of Portugal during the Anglo-Spanish War. A British fleet defeated a Spanish squadron.

  9. 1780s - Wikipedia

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    The 1780s (pronounced "seventeen-eighties") was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1780, and ended on December 31, 1789. A period widely considered as transitional between the Age of Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution , the 1780s saw the inception of modern philosophy .