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However, in 1549, the flag is stated as being "yellow-white-red". In 1647, the white-star-on-red design (with a six-pointed star) had apparently returned when the Peace of Münster treaty was signed. The next known design is the white-red (with the upper part of the flag being white, and the lower part being red) design similar to the Polish flag.
These details elaborate on the 1777 act, passed early in the American Revolutionary War, which specified 13 alternating red and white horizontal stripes and 13 white stars in a blue canton. Its name stems from the story, once widely believed, that shortly after the 1777 act, upholsterer and flag maker Betsy Ross produced a flag of this design. [1]
White flag, internationally recognised as a sign of truce, ceasefire, and surrender.The flag of the Kingdom of France in 1814–1830, during the Bourbon Restoration. Afghanistan (with black text)
The national flag of the United States, often referred to as the American flag or the U.S. flag, consists of thirteen horizontal stripes, alternating red and white, with a blue rectangle in the canton bearing fifty small, white, five-pointed stars arranged in nine offset horizontal rows, where rows of six stars alternate with rows of five stars.
There are four red six-pointed stars on the center white bar. Six-pointed stars are used because five-pointed stars represent sovereign states and because the star as designed was found on no other known flags as of 1917. [7] From the hoist outwards, the stars represent: Original to the 1917 flag: This star stands for the Great Chicago Fire of ...
Notably, the Union Jack features in many territorial and sub-national flags usually based on the Red Ensign (e.g., Bermuda) or Blue Ensign (e.g., New South Wales). The British Ensign in a few cases have backgrounds of other colours (e.g. British Antarctic Territory and Niue ) or a unique pattern in the field (e.g. British Indian Ocean Territory ...
The state flag of the U.S. state of Arkansas, also known as the Arkansas flag, is a red banner charged with a large blue-bordered white lozenge (diamond). Twenty-nine five-pointed stars appear on the flag: twenty-five small white stars within the blue border, and four larger blue stars in the white diamond. The state's name appears in blue ...
The flag uses the colors red, white and blue of the American flag. Featured prominently in the center of the flag is a bursting star. [6] Running through the center of the flag horizontally, is an arc that is meant to symbolize the new horizon of opportunity for black people. [4]