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Antongil (Benyovski's) Kingdom (Madagascar)

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[Antongil flag] by Jarig Bakker, 18 Jul 2005 See also:

Antongil (Benyovski's) Kingdom

At this website is a flag: blue with in the center a white crescent pointing towards the fly. Image based on a small image by Jaume Ollé, based on Flag Bull., X:2/3, 1971 - Lucien Philippe, Les anciens drapeaux de Madagascar, 6° ICV, IJsselmeer, 1975.

Data according to the site mentioned:
Antogil (Louisbourg)

11 Feb 1774 Kingdom of Antongil proclaimed by Hungarian adventurer.
23 May 1786 Terminated by France.

Commander
11 Feb 1774 - 23 May 1786 Maurice Auguste de Beinowsky (b. 1746 - d. 1786)
Jarig Bakker, 18 Jul 2005

From the book "L'Etat c'est moi" by Bruno Fuligni.

The author reports the story of the count Benovsky, who related his life in an autobiography where quite good observations are mixed with enormous lies. Please don' t read the following lines as pure truth.

Count Benovsky was born in Verbowa (= Vrbova, then Hungary, now Slovakia) in 1741. He told he fought as a general in imperial army in 1756, but it seems to be wrong because he was only 15 or 16. His brothers stole his legacy, he tried to punish them but was then forced to leave. He went to Poland, fought with Confederation of Bar, was arrested by Russians, deported to Kazan, where he conspired against the russian government. He was then deported to Kamtchatka. He arrived in 1770 at Bolcherjezk, where he seduced the daughter