vertically striped green-white-red national flag with a central coat of arms featuring an eagle, a cactus, and a serpent. The flag has a width-to-length ratio of 4 to 7.The struggle for Mexican independence took place under a number of flags, but, when it was finally achieved in 1821 under the conservative Iguala Plan, a tricolour of green-white-red was officially established. This design may have been influenced by the French Tricolor, but the colours were distinctively Mexican. Green symbolizes independence, white is for the Roman Catholic religion, and red is for union the “Three Guarantees” of Iguala. That political compromise allowed Mexico
vertically striped orange-white-green national flag. It has a width-to-length ratio of approximately 2 to 3.In the mid-20th century Félix Houphouët-Boigny, an African from the French colony then known as Ivory Coast, served many years as a member of the National Assembly and then of the governing
The Witnessed Account of British Resident: John Dodd at Tamsui is a book essentially built around the diary of the British tea merchant and the hardships he faced as a result of a blockade by French forces taking part in the wider Sino-French War of the mid-1880s.
A valuable record of the period, to any history buff it is just as valuable for the numerous French military maps included at the front of the book many showing forts in and around the Keelung area that no longer appear on contemporary versions.
And as a “self-titled” history buff, and former military
CALAIS, France (Reuters) - Eric Zemmour, the French far-right presidential challenger, on Wednesday said he would seize back control of France's borders from Europe, block European Union free trade negotiations and prevent any further enlargement of the bloc to the east.