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Poland - XIX century flags

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Grand Duchy of Warsaw

The Grand Duchy of Warsaw was founded in 1807 (under the King of Saxony; Napoleon became Grand Duke in 1809, if I recall correctly). Included roughly the central and southeastern modern-day Poland. As Boney set it up as a restored rump Polish state, can we assume that it used the white-over-red?

In 1815 most of it became the Kingdom of Poland, which was supposed to be autonomous within the Russian Empire. I'm pretty sure that used the Polish colours until its suppression in 1830.
Roy Stilling,, 26 January 1996

Information about Polish XIX century flags on FOTW pages are incomplete. Grand Duchy of Warsaw was Napoleon's satellite state 1807-1815, but Napoleon never had been the Duke of it. The Duke was Saxonian king, Friedrich August. Grand Duchy of Warsaw had flag horizontally white-amaranth.
After Congress in Vienna 1815 Grand Duchy was divided into three parts:
Kingdom of Poland, Grand Duchy of Poznan and Free City of Cracow.
Grzegorz Skrukwa, 6 Apr 2000

It is very hard to tell what exactly flag was used in the Grand Duchy of Warsaw, but this could be rather r