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Following Rodrigo Llano Isaza, Ortega Ricaute and others, the
United provinces adopted a triband flag. Its not sure of course,
but there are several quotations that suggest this. The most
known are the words of Bolivar, when in 1815 he was accused of
atacking Cartagena under Venezuelan colors. He denied that and
assured that used a flag from a grenadine battaillon of colours
yellow, green and red. R. Llano assure that this flag, and
exactly in this arrangement was adopted by law 14 July 1814,
using the colors of Cartagena but changing the arrangament to one
most popular and similar to the one used in Venezuela, to the
spanish flag etc... Because text of law is ambigous I am unable
to confirm it. But seems more logic that Federal government
adopted different flag that one of its provinces, that was used
probably provisionally use because of lacking other, and
Cartagena flag, as an important port, was the most known, and was
later preserved its colors. Those colores in triband were later
adopted by one of the sovereign states in the period 1857-1886.
Flagsmaster shows this flag but changed the arrangement to
red-yellow-green, but this must be a mistake.
I believe that same flag was used by Tunja when federal
government virtually annulled the provincial one after 1812.
Jaume Olle, 15 September 2001
by Jaume Olle, 15 September 2001
by Jaume Olle, 15 September 2001
by Jaume Olle, 15 September 2001