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Description: | French national flag from 1794-1814, and after 1830. Cotton, printed design, machine sewn. No hoist attachment. Three vertical stripes blue, white, red. The blue part of the design enfolded in a piece of coarser material part blue, part white. Sixteen rounded holes. Supposedly a relic of the Battle of Trafalgar but this unlikely. Label: "French tricolor taken at Trafalgar. Donor J Rochelle Thomas Esq. Flag was given by Admiral Sir Peter Parker to T..." Associations dubious. | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | national flags Thomas Peter Parker J Rochelle ? | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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