The Revolution has come to the ancient pony capital of Canterlot. Will it be good, or bad, nopony knows.

This is drawn as a practice at using painty brushes and cityscape, and my reference is this excellent concept art from Dechambo: http://assassinscreed.wikia.com/wiki/File:Fall_of_the_Bastille_-_Concept_Art.jpg.

Torn from the flag: the removal of the royal sisters from the Equestrian flag. Also a reference to the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, when Hungarian revolutionaries cut out the communist coat of arms from the middle and adopt the hollowed-out flag as their symbol.