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,
Malay tricolour their allegiance to the Sultans of Malay states, then the protectorates of the British Empire. In 1946, when Malay nationalist movement at its peak, the right wing United Malays National Organisation (Umno) adopted the tricolour in its flag. The party which would lead Malaya to its independence and govern the nation since then, included the additional white band to its flag to symbolise purity. After Umno, the tricolour also appears in the symbols of other right wing organisations like Pekida and Perkasa, and some major Silat associations in Malaysia, including Seni Gayong and Seni Gayung Fatani. The tricolour also gained