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The flag of Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: bratach na h-Alba; [1] Scots: ... When incorporated as part of the Union Flag during the 17th century, ...
17th-century: Scottish Covenanter flag: 1698-1700: Flag of the Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies. Red background with three small stripes at the bottom, from top to bottom, blue, white, and blue, representing a sea. There is a rising yellow sun off-centered slightly to the left. 1715: The Jacobite Standard of 1715.
Covenanters [a] were members of a 17th-century Scottish religious and political movement, who supported a Presbyterian Church of Scotland and the primacy of its leaders in religious affairs. It originated in disputes with James VI and his son Charles I over church organisation and doctrine , but expanded into political conflict over the limits ...
Union Flag used in the Kingdom of Scotland from the early 17th century to 1707. Union Flag used in the Kingdom of England, 1606–1707. The Tudor rose dimidiated with the Scottish thistle , James used the device as a royal heraldic badge .
The clan system of the Highlands and Islands had been seen as a challenge to the rulers of Scotland from before the 17th century. James VI's various measures to exert control included the Statutes of Iona, an attempt to force clan leaders to become integrated into the rest of Scottish society. This started a slow process of change which, by the ...
The flag of Great Britain, often referred to as the King's Colour, first Union Flag, [1] [2] Union Jack, and British flag, was used at sea from 1606 and more generally from 1707 to 1801. It was the first flag of the Kingdom of Great Britain. [3] [4] It is the precursor to the Union Jack of 1801.
The English Red Ensign as it appeared in the 17th century. Prior to the reorganisation of the Royal Navy in 1864, the plain red ensign had been the ensign of one of three squadrons of the Royal Navy, the Red Squadron, as early as 1558. By 1620, the plain red ensign started to appear with the Cross of St George in the upper-left canton.
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