Quote Originally Posted by Lord Dasper View Post
Found that interesting Monsieur. found this page https://www.crwflags.com/Fotw/flags/fr_revol.html#pre I would also suspect that with it taking nearly 1 year to get to the outer colonies, no flag was thrown away, but used until it rotted. Same as the British union flag, there are many regimental paintings of units still flying their "old colours", as they had not received new ones.
Well, it definitely makes sense notably considering the irreducible travelling time and also the practical aspect as you mentioned the fact that nothing was automatically thrown away.