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The Batavian Republic (Dutch: Bataafse Republiek; French: République Batave) was a so-called ‘sister republic’ of Revolutionary France. It was proclaimed on 18 January 1795, following the French invasion of the Low Countries in the War of the First Coalition, which drove the Austrians out of the Southern Netherlands and led to the fall of the United Provinces. The new Batavian Republic remained a vassal state of France until Napoleon turned it into a kingdom in 1806 and installed his brother Louis as King of Holland.
The French revolutionaries banned the orange-white-blue tricolour of the defeated United Provinces, favouring the red-white-blue flag still used by the modern-day Kingdom of the Netherlands. From 1796, the red band also displayed the ‘Dutch Maiden’ (Dutch: Nederlandse Maagd) with a lion at her feet, bearing a shield with the Roman fascis in one hand and a lance crowned with the cap of liberty in the other.
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The French revolutionaries banned the orange-white-blue tricolour of the defeated United Provinces, favouring the red-white-blue flag still used by the modern-day Kingdom of the Netherlands. From 1796, the red band also displayed the ‘Dutch Maiden’ (Dutch: Nederlandse Maagd) with a lion at her feet, bearing a shield with the Roman fascis in one hand and a lance crowned with the cap of liberty in the other.
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