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image by Jaume Ollé, 7 October 2001
image by Jaume Ollé, 7 October 2001
image by Jaume Ollé, 7 October 2001
image by Jaume Ollé, 7 October 2001
Great Colombia Federal Republic, 1822(?): is refers by Mr.
Jaume Olle, with regard to the incorporation of the Province of
Quito (today Ecuador), diverse projects of Flags and Coat of Arms
arose for reflect the new geopolitical reality of the Nation. Its
probable that the Coat of Arms was located at the center if we
considered that the Republics of Colombia and Ecuador at the
moment maintain in their flags their respective blazons in the
same location. The three stars of six points alludes to the three
departments of the Great Colombia: Venezuela, Cundinamarca and
Quito. The graphics constitute only an artistic representation.
Raul Orta, 7 June 2002
image by Jaume Ollé, 7 October 2001
image by Jaume Ollé, 7 October 2001
Great Colombia Federal Republic, 1822(?): It's a variant of
the previous artistic representation in which the Chief Quarter
of the Coat of Arms shows nine stars of six points in reference
to another proposal of geopolitical division for the country. The
graphics constitute only an artistic representation.
Raul Orta, 7 June 2002
image by Jaume Ollé, 7 October 2001
image by Jaume Ollé, 7 October 2001
Great Colombia Federal Republic, 1822(?):. It's a variant of
the previous artistic representation in which the Chief Quarter
of the Coat of Arms shows twelve stars of six points in reference
to another proposal of geopolitical division for the country. The
graphics constitute only an artistic representation.
Raul Orta, 7 June 2002
image by Jaume Ollé, 7 October 2001
image by Jaume Ollé, 7 October 2001
image by Jaume Ollé, 7 October 2001
image by Guillermo T. Aveledo, 5 August 2000
This is the flag attributed at the Bolivarian Museum in
Caracas to be the one of the Great Colombian Army Hussars used at
the battles of Ayacucho and Junin, in the early 1820s. It is a
regular 2:2 flag, with the Great Colombia tricolor
(yellow-blue-red) with equal height stripes, and the Great
Colombian coat of arms centered (without the caption REPUBLICA DE COLOMBIA
around it), and a tricolor ribbon heading the arms (a phalanx,
a bundle of arrows and a bow, a right facing ax and two upside
looking cornucopias). It wears the caption, on the yellow stripe
"VENCEDOR EN AYACVCHO" ("Victor at
Ayacucho"), and on the red stripe "LIBERTADOR DEL
PERV" ("Liberator of Peru").
The actual flag from which I made the sketch to give you this
image is housed at the Bolivarian Museum in Caracas. It has
suffered from heavy colour damage, losing much of its hue to the
point of being practically undecipherable. I watched closely and
attentively, determining finally that it had to be a tricolor
(the red stripe had achieved a purplish-blue hue over the years).
But I can accept the fact that the colors I presented might be
wrong. However, the details are right. This flag can be seen the
same way on its reverse.
Guillermo T. Aveledo, 5 August 2000
The Natioanl Museum of Colombia displays the
square flag of the Batallón Húsares del Centro, primer escuadrón (Hussars of
the Center Battalion, first squad), ca. 1824, dimensions 73 x 78 cm.
The flag has three equal horizontal stripes. On the top yellow stripe it reads
in capital red letters HÚSARES DEL CENTRO, then on the middle blue stripe it has
the coat of arms and on the bottom red stripe it shows
on yellow letters on top 1er, and below this the word ESCUADRÓN.
Esteban Rivera, 24 April 2010