↑ George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana, The American Cyclopaedia, New York, 1874, p. 250, "...the standard of France was white, sprinkled with golden fleur de lis...". *The original Banner of France was strewn with fleurs-de-lis. *:on the reverse of this plate it says: "Le pavillon royal était véritablement le drapeau national au dix-huitième siècle...Vue du château d'arrière d'un vaisseau de guerre de haut rang portant le pavillon royal (blanc, avec les armes de France)." from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica: "The oriflamme and the Chape de St Martin were succeeded at the end of the 16th century, when Henry III, the last of the house of Valois, came to the throne, by the white standard powdered with fleurs-de-lis. This in turn gave place to the tricolour."
↑ The Treaty of Paris (1763) in Corbett, Julian (1918). England in the Seven Years' War: A Study in Combined Strategy Vol. II (Second Edition ed.). London: Longman, Green and Co.CS1 maint: Extra text (link)
↑ Bowen, HV (1998). War and British Society 1688-1815. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. p. 7. ISBN 0-521-57645-8.
↑ Tombs, Robert and Isabelle. That Sweet Enemy: The French and the British from the Sun King to the Present. London: William Heinemann, 2006.
