Regimental Flags
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The French soldiers started to use white crosses, during the Hundred Years' War, to distinguish themselves from the English soldiers wearing red crosses (battle of Formigny).
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A white-crossed regimental flag during the Ancien Régime (here, Régiment d'Auvergne).
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La Sarre Regiment (Régiment La Sarre)
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King's Regiment (Régiment du Roi)
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Queen's Regiment (Régiment de la Reine)
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General Lévis's Regiment Flag in North America. Now official flag of the city of Levis, Quebec
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The pre-revolutionary regimental flags inspired the flag of Quebec (here, the Compagnies Franches de la Marine).
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Regimental flag of the 1st Regiment of Grenadiers of the French Imperial Guard (1812).
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Current regimental flags of the 1st and 2nd Regiments of the French Foreign Legion
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