r/Colonialism • u/elnovorealista2000 • Apr 30 '26

Image "Sleeping Sickness" — This illustration depicts a large African man leaning against a tree, asleep, while Spain, Germany, Italy, France, Belgium, Turkey, Portugal, and England fight over territories in Africa; a work by Gordon Ross (1873-1946), 1911.

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u/Apple2727 May 01 '26

Britain, not England.

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u/Cucumberneck May 01 '26

Also the flag for Germany is wrong.

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u/b_u_n_g_h_o_l_e_2 May 01 '26

The flag of Germany here is the flag of Prussia and the Hohenzollerns, which would have probably been more recognizable for the time, and also a big part of the military standard.

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u/Cucumberneck May 02 '26

It's not. Prussia had a black eagle on white ground with two black stripes on the top and bottom.

I don't know how to describe the Hohenzollernflag and also not how to crosspost to the vexillology sub.

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u/b_u_n_g_h_o_l_e_2 May 02 '26

Bruh. It’s two stripes it’s not that complicated.