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1:2. Design. As above, with the blue and red stripes switched to indicate a state of war. The national flag of the Philippines (pambansang watawat ng Pilipinas) is a horizontal bicolor flag with equal bands of royal blue and crimson red, with a white, equilateral triangle at the hoist.
6 (incl. Lorenza Agoncillo) Doña Marcela Mariño de Agoncillo (née Mariño y Coronel; June 24, 1859 – May 30, 1946) [1][2][3] was a Filipina who was the principal seamstress of the first and official flag of the Philippines, [4] gaining her the title of "The Mother of the Philippine Flag." Marcela Coronel Mariño was the daughter of Don ...
The "Evolution of the Philippine Flag" is a set of various flags of the Katipunan revolutionary group of the Philippine Revolution. Three of the flags are organizational flags of the Katipunan, while others were personal flags or battle standards of Andres Bonifacio, Mariano Llanera, Pio del Pilar, and Gregorio del Pilar. [1]
As the story goes, around March or April 1898, Aguinaldo requested Marcela Agoncillo to make the Philippine flag according to a design, inspired by the Cuban flag, given by the revolutionary committee. Lorenza, then seven years old, helped her mother in sewing the flag together with Rizal's niece, Delfina Herbosa Natividad. The task was ...
The Republic Act (RA) 8491, also known as Flag and Heraldic Code of the Philippines, stipulates the code for national flag, anthem, motto, coat-of-arms and other heraldic items and devices of the Philippines. [1] According to Article XIV Section 6 of the Constitution of the Philippines, the national language of the Philippines is Filipino. [2]
Plaza Libertad, formerly known as Plaza Alfonso XII, is a historic plaza or town square in Iloilo City, Philippines.It is considered the site where the flag of the first Philippine Republic was raised in triumph after Spain surrendered Iloilo, the last Spanish capital in the Philippines, to the revolutionary forces led by Gen. Martin Delgado on December 25, 1898.
More than 100 pages use this file. The following list shows the first 100 pages that use this file only. A full list is available. 1898 in the Philippines; 1899 in the Philippines; 7×57mm Mauser; Agueda Kahabagan; Ananías Diokno; Arsenio Cruz Herrera; Artemio Ricarte; Balangiga massacre; Baldomero Aguinaldo; Battle of Agusan Hill; Battle of ...
The history of the Philippines from 1898 to 1946 is known as the American colonial period, and began with the outbreak of the Spanish–American War in April 1898, when the Philippines was still a colony of the Spanish East Indies, and concluded when the United States formally recognized the independence of the Republic of the Philippines on ...