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Tobago (Trinidad and Tobago)

Overview
Independentist flag
1877 Flag
1880 Flags
1889 Flag
Colonial Badges

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Trinidad and Tobago

Overview

Tobago was Dutch in 1632, in 1654-1683 it was a colony of Courland (now in northern Lithuania) and in 1768 it was French.
Source: Dutch edition of "Westermann Grosser Atlas zur Weltgeschiechte".
Mark Sensen, 31 August 1997

Tobago was under British administration after 1763 but was not occupied by the British until 1797. Between 1763 and 1797 the citizens (most of them were of Dutch origin) recognized the British rule but had in fact a self administration. In 1814 Tobago was confirmed as Brtish colony by the Paris Treaty. It remained a separate colony until 1888. The first reported badge was after 1815. The first flag (a blue ensign with badge) was used from 1877 to 1880. In 1880 a variant badge was reported in use. After 1880 a new badge was included on the blue ensign. After the union with Trinidad the badge became obsolete, but remained in use. In 1889 a new variant badge was temporarily reported. The badge of 1880-88 was in unofficial use until 1898 when a new constitution was granted to the colony of Trinidad & Tobago.
Jaume Olle', 28 August 1997

Tobago had its own badge from 1876 until 1889 before it was joined with Trinidad.
David Prothero , 22 November 1999

Tobago passed into Dutch hands in 1632 and in 1654 was colonised by Courland which abandoned it in 1683. It was then occupied by France. Occupied by England (sic) in 1763, it was abandoned. The French recolonized it again de facto in 1768 but the British occupied it definitively in 1797, converting it into a colony in 1814 when the cession was confirmed by the Treaty of Paris. Tobago was a separate colony until 1888 when it was joined to Trinidad. As a colony, it used British ensigns with a badge.
Jaume Olle' and Stephan Hurford , 5 March 2000

Tobago used a circular seal in 1870 flag.
David Prothero, 8 April 2005

Independentist flag

by Jaume Olle' , 5 March 2000

After many inquiries I found the Tobago flag (?). This is the text of the letter I received:

My name is Winston Murray. I teach at Morgan State University in Baltimore. Indeed I am the person who hoisted the Tobago flag with my colleagues: Mr Brassy, Mr Saul and Mr Bernard Romeo from Plymouth, Ms Moderine Alfred my house keeper from Bethel, where the flag was designed by Ms Claudia n?e Callender. The flag was hoisted on December 31, 1977 with the assistance of ex-soldier Hubert Hackett of Campbleton, Tobago. The political party is called the Fargo House Movement. The name Fargo is the alias appended to the name of our first parliamentarian Alphonso Philbert Theophilus "Fargo" James. The colours of the Tobago flag are black, green and red.

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