Editing Flag of the Netherlands (section)

===Flag of the Batavian Republic===
[[File:Flag of the Batavian Republic.svg|thumb|[[File:FIAV historical.svg|23px]]Flag of the [[Batavian Republic]]  (1796–1806)|border]]
With the [[Batavian Revolution]] in the Netherlands in the last decade of the 18th century, and the subsequent conquest by the [[First French Republic|French]], the name "Prince's Flag" was forbidden and the red-white-blue of the [[Statenvlag]] was the only flag allowed, analogous as it was to [[Flag of France|France's own tricolour]], chosen just a few months earlier, ironically influenced by that same Statenvlag.<ref name=":4" /> In 1796 the red division of the flag was embellished with the figure of a Netherlands maiden, with a lion at her feet, in the upper left corner. In one hand she bore a shield with the [[fasces|Roman fasces]] and in the other a lance crowned with the [[cap of liberty]]. This flag had a life as short as that of the [[Batavian Republic]] for which it was created.
[[Louis Bonaparte]], made [[Kingdom of Holland|king of Holland]] by his brother the Emperor [[Napoleon]], wished to pursue a purely Dutch policy and to respect national sentiments as much as possible.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/napoleonbiograph00nich|url-access=registration|title=Napoleon: A Biographical Companion|last=Nicholls|first=David|date=1999|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=9780874369571|pages=[https://archive.org/details/napoleonbiograph00nich/page/34 34]|language=en}}</ref> He removed the maiden of freedom from the flag and restored the old tricolour. His pro-Dutch policies led to conflicts with his brother, however, and the Netherlands were incorporated into the French Empire. In 1810 its flag was replaced by the imperial emblems.