ocr: ITALY The Italian flag was patterned on the French tricolor. The French general Napoleoninvaded northemnItaly in the late 1700s. At the time, Italy was made up of: small states, many of them under foreign rule. Many Italians saw Napoleonas a liberator, and some of them served in his army. Napoleon himself designed this flag for his Italian units. He replaced the blue of the French flag with his favorite color, green. A variation of this flag was - used by19th- and 20th-century kings of Italy,
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