Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
A pure white flag: 1943–1945: Naval jack of Free France: The argent rhomboid field is defaced with a gules Lorraine cross. 10 August 1939–present: Flag of the Admiral of the French Navy: 10 August 1939–present: Flag of the Vice-Admiral D'escadre of the French Navy: Flag of the Vice-Admiral of the French Navy: Flag of the Contre-Admiral of ...
The flag of Free France is the standard flag of France superimposed with the Lorraine cross. The Cross of Lorraine is an emblem of Lorraine in eastern France. Between 1871 and 1918 (and again between 1940 and 1944), the north-eastern quarter of Lorraine (the Moselle department) was annexed to Germany, along with Alsace. During that period the ...
The national flag of France (drapeau national de la France) is a tricolour featuring three vertical bands coloured blue (), white, and red.The design was adopted after the French Revolution, whose revolutionaries were influenced by the horizontally striped red-white-blue flag of the Netherlands.
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 20:47, 29 December 2023: 900 × 600 (193 bytes): Undertiago: Reverted to version as of 18:04, 2 January 2023 (UTC) The file is 2 bytes bigger and its size should be 900x600 like many other 2:3 ratio flags.
An uprising by the inhabitants of French-occupied Cairo was ultimately suppressed after two days of fighting. Girodet portrays the scene on a large-scale, featuring a ferocious clash beetween melange of bodies. At the front is a French hussar charging on foot against a group of Mamelukes and Bedouin. Another hussar's severed head is held aloft. [3]
English: It was the Naval Ensign of the Kingdom of France (pure white version) as used before 1789, and between 1814/15 and 1830. Français : Le drapeau blanc fut le drapeau français pendant la Première Restauration et la Seconde Restauration (1814-1830).
9 July - Peninsular War: Siege of Ciudad Rodrigo ends in French victory. 24 July - Peninsular War: Battle of the Côa. 25 July - Peninsular War: Siege of Almeida begins. French lay siege to British and Portuguese forces. 20 August - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Grand Port, Mauritius. French victory over British fleet.
The Senate's decision on 17 February 1810 created the title "King of Rome", and made Rome the capital of Italy. Between 1810 and 1812 Napoleon's divorce of Joséphine, and his marriage with Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria, followed by the birth of his son, shed light upon his future policy. He gradually withdrew power from his siblings and ...