Tricolour (flag) orange-white-blue design of the Prince's Flag ("Prinsenvlag", predecessor of the flags of the Netherlands and Luxembourg), used from 1579 by William I of Orange-Nassau in the Eighty Years' War, establishing the independence of the Dutch Republic from the Spanish Empire. Though not the first tricolour flag, one of the most famous, known as "Le Tricolore", is the blue, white and red (whence also called "Le Bleu-Blanc-Rouge") flag of France adopted in the French Revolution. With the formation of French client republics after 1795, the revolutionary tricolour was exported and adopted more widely in Europe, by the Republic of Alba 1796
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