Flag of the Netherlands The red-white-blue triband flag of the Netherlands as used in the 17th century is said to have influenced the Russian flag. With the revolution in the Netherlands in the last decade of the 18th century, and the conquest by the French, the name "Prince's Flag" was forbidden. The orange-white-blue was changed into red-white-blue (colours to which the French "liberators" were kindly disposed, analogous as they were to their own tricolour, chosen just a few months earlier) and in 1796 the red division of the flag was embellished with the figure of a Netherlands maiden, with a lion at her feet,
Newfoundland Tricolour (SOSA). It is one of the very few and perhaps one of the oldest popularly recognized flags in the world to use the colour pink. However, the true Newfoundland tricolour flag is the red(at the hoist)-white(in the centre)-green(on the fly) flag of the Newfoundland Natives' Society which was founded in 1840 in St. John's. Historical evidence indicates that the "Pink, White and Green" flag first appeared in the 1880s to 1890s as the flag of the Roman Catholic fraternal group the Star of the Sea Association, which was formed in St. John's in 1871. It bears a strong resemblance to