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Flag of the second Republic of China (Alternate History scenario)

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Monarchist Bourbon France (alternate design)

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A flag for a British Republic (Alternate History)

from /r/vexillology Top comment: Following the disastrous defeats of the British Army at the hands of General Hoche and the subsequent creation of the Hibernian Republic, discontent rose to fever-pitch among the people of the UK. When a series of extremely harsh anti-sedition laws were passed and hundreds executed over the course of a few weeks, including Mary Wollstonecraft and Thomas Paine, things grew out of hand. A farmers' rebellion in Derbyshire swept through the countryside in the spring of 1797. Though the response was a campaign of mass slaughter as the Hanoverian troops were loosed on the people without restraint, this only caused more rebellions to spring up. By winter of that year, there was mass starvation in the cities and a tradespeople's rebellion in London won the support of a large cohort of intellectuals, statespeople, artists, and soldiers, who stormed the Tower of London to free political prisoners. The royal family fled the city for Cambridge as a large army was called up from the war against France on the continent and the city was put under siege. A massive mutiny occurred within the army in February and the resulting battle allowed the revolutionaries to break the siege, during which a group of political theorists led by John Cartwright, William Godwin, Thomas Holcroft, Joseph Fawcett and other members of the Society for Constitutional Information had worked out the basic documentation for a written constitution consecrating a British Republic. A remarkably radical document, it provided for land reform, religious freedom, taxation by income, equality before the law and universal suffrage along with the abolition of monarchy and the transfer of church property to the state. Several of its writers having died in the siege before the document was finished, it became a lasting symbol of the dream of progress and model for new governments to come. The device of a tricolour of red, white, and purple charged with a red dragon was created anonymously, first appearing in 1800 during the British Civil War which followed the breaking of the Siege of London and the organization of the revolution's first army. It was carried mainly by the revolutionaries fighting alongside the Franco-Irish expeditionary forces, and became very famous during the Siege of Runcorn where it flew over fortifications with the words "RES PUBLICA BRITANNICA". It was first seen in its modern incarnation with iron-grey sword and hammer at the Battle of Whissendine, where it was carried by revolutionary cavalry and immortalized in a painting of the battle by Henry Fuseli. When it was adopted officially by the British Republic after the end of the war in 1814, the red and purple bands were claimed by the Glasite poet Phanuel Firth to stand for courage and conscience, or strength and labor, respectively, while the white band stood for the christian faith. However, other writers claimed that the white band stood both for the innocence of the massacred farmers of Derbyshire whose sacrifice began the revolution and for the cold winter and blizzard conditions that prevailed in besieged London as the radicalist constitution was written.

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