The man had come floundering aboard the flat-bottomed barge at the last instant, brandishing the flag of truce.

* 1863 – The Dominican Restoration War begins when Gregorio Luperón raises the Dominican flag in Santo Domingo after Spain had recolonized the country.

They also had a flag carrier at the front who guided the forces behind him ; when the flag was upright the combatants behind would stand and when turned down, they would sit.

At the end of 1874, when Field Marshal Serrano left Madrid to take command of the northern army in the Carlist War, Brigadier Martínez Campos, who had long been working more or less openly for the king, led some battalions of the central army to Sagunto, rallied to his own flag the troops sent against him, and entered Valencia in the king's name.

On November 24, 1897, French naval authorities found three Americans on Clipperton working for the American Guano Company, who had raised the American flag on the island.

Near the end of the Daytona 500, he had a four-second lead when the final caution flag came out with a handful of laps to go.

had to drink There were even drinking game referee officials, including a ' registrar of the rules ' who knew all the rules to the game, a ' registrar of the horn ' who tossed a silver flag down on calling out second offenses, and a ' governor ' who decided one's third call of offense.

They also noted that the flag currently used had lengths, of the last two fields, anywhere between 7 / 4 to 13 / 6.

However, the Council of Europe agreed that the European Communities could use the flag and it had promoted its use by other regional organisations since it was created.

Several countries ( including the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union ) have had unique flags flown by their armed forces, rather than the national flag.

Before that day, the flag had served mostly as a military ensign or a convenient marking of American territory, flown from forts, embassies, and ships, and displayed on special occasions like the Fourth of July.

Also, some British sources have accounted the flag story ( He had the Spanish flag hauled down and the English flag hoisted in its stead ; Rooke's men quickly raised the British flag ... and Rooke claimed the Rock in the name of Queen Anne ; or Sir George Rooke, the British admiral, on his own responsibility caused the British flag to be hoisted, and took possession in name of Queen Anne, whose government ratified the occupation ).

: What does seem nowadays proved is that the British troops who had landed on the South Mole area raised their flag to signal their presence to the ships, and avoid being fired upon by their own side.

The referee Gottfried Dienst, unsure, decided to consult his linesman, Tofik Bakhramov, on the right flank, who had waved his flag to get the official's attention.

The increased tribute demand was refused, a United States of America naval force blockaded Tripoli, and the First Barbary War continued on until 3 June 1805 resulting in the repatriation of 300 US sailors and the first time the US flag had been raised in victory on foreign soil.

During his life Henri, comte de Chambord, as the grandson of Charles X, had refused to abandon the fleur-de-lys and the white flag.

Ultimately, he had to flag down a passing car and ask the driver ( who was driving a borrowed car without a license ) to take him to the ceremony.

* 1909 – Ernest Shackleton, leading the Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole, plants the British flag from the South Pole, the furthest anyone had ever reached at that time.

There was a cardinal rule that the warriors of the Order should never surrender unless the Templar flag had fallen, and even then they were first to try to regroup with another of the Christian orders, such as that of the Hospitallers.

) Afghanistan had more changes of its national flag during the 20th and 21st centuries than any other country in the world, having 21 flags from 1901 to the present.

* 1959 – The current flag of Singapore is adopted, six months after Singapore became self-governing within the British Empire.

The national flag of the United States of America is often simply referred to as the American flag, consisting of thirteen equal horizontal stripes of red ( top and bottom ) alternating with white, with a blue rectangle in the canton ( referred to specifically as the " union ") bearing fifty small, white, five-pointed stars arranged in nine offset horizontal rows of six stars ( top and bottom ) alternating with rows of five stars.

The former South African prime minister and architect of apartheid, Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd, had a dream to change the then-current flag of South Africa, remove the three small flags in its center ( he objected especially to the British Union Flag being there ) and replace them with a leaping springbok antelope over a wreath of six proteas.

Boy Scouts at Granada War Relocation Center raising flag to half-mast during a Memorial Service for first six Nisei soldiers from this Center who were killed in action in Italy.

The flag of Sussex consists of six gold martlets, or heraldic swallows, on a blue background, blazoned as Azure, six martlets or.

" During the subsequent trial, Flynt wore an American flag as a diaper and was jailed for six months for desecration of the flag.

The flag of the Netherlands Antilles was white, with a horizontal blue stripe in the center, one-third of the flag's hoist, superimposed on a vertical red stripe of the same width, also centered ; six white, five-pointed stars are arranged in a pentagon pattern in the center of the blue band, their points up.

It is one of only six such sites allowed to fly the United States flag at half-mast in perpetuity.

It is one of only six such sites allowed to fly the United States flag at half-mast in perpetuity.

The fraternity flag is in the proportions of eight and one-half feet wide by six feet high ; the colors are the official fraternity colors ; the design is three vertical stripes of equal width, a hunter green in the middle, flanked on either side by a cardinal red stripe.

The six basic contexts of use ( and potential variants of a national flag ) are:

Because the bars must be at least six inches wide, small representations of the Alabama flag do not meet the legal definition.

According to the national constitution, the flag is a tricolour of horizontal bands of green, white and blue and measures six units by nine units.

* Similarly, bit stuffing replaces these start and end marks with flag consisting of a special bit pattern ( e. g. a 0, six 1 bits and a 0 ).

The final design which was adopted contains the Union Flag in the left corner symbolising Australia's historical links to the United Kingdom, the stars of the Southern Cross on the right half of the flag indicating Australia's geographical location and the seven pointed Federation Star in the bottom left representing the six states and the territories of Australia.

He designed the flag and banner used by the corps, and admitted to being one of the original six or seven members of the Corps during his trial.

At the second raising of a flag on the peak, Joe Rosenthal photographed six Marines: Ira Hayes, Mike Strank, Rene Gagnon, Harlon Block, Franklin Sousley, and U. S. Navy corpsman John Bradley raising the U. S. flag on the fourth day of the battle ( February 23 ).

Contrary to popular belief, the famous picture of the six men raising the flag, was not the first flag raising on the Island.

The second flag was raised by these six after the Secretary of the Navy asked for the original flag that had been raised.

The ANC flag is composed of three stripes – black, green and gold.

Although no " Hopkinson flags " exist from the time period, it is believed that his flag contained 13 red and white stripes and 13 white stars arranged symmetrically on a field of blue.

The 50 stars on the flag represent the 50 states of the United States of America and the 13 stripes represent the thirteen British colonies that declared independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain and became the first states in the Union.

Some similarities to the United States flag with the red and white stripes are noted as well such as the flag of Malaysia and the flag of Liberia, the latter of which was an American resettlement colony.

There was initially some uproar caused, as the stripes of the flag of Estonia were displayed incorrectly.

The national flag of the ZAR featured three horizontal stripes of red, white, and blue ( mirroring the Dutch national flag ), with a vertical green stripe at the hoist, and was known as the Vierkleur ( lit.

It is a modified version of the flag Sandino used in the 1930s, during the war against the U. S. occupation of Nicaragua which consisted of two vertical stripes, equally in size, one red and the other black with a skull ( like the traditional Jolly Roger flag ).

This flag, with fifteen stars and fifteen stripes, came to be known as the Star Spangled Banner Flag and is today on display in the National Museum of American History, a treasure of the Smithsonian Institution.

* April 4 – The U. S. Congress adopts the flag of the United States as having thirteen red and white stripes and one star for each state ( twenty ) with additional stars to be added whenever a new state is added to the Union.

A modified version ( with broken vertical stripes ) can be seen in the coat of arms and flag used by Northumberland County Council.

A flag with three different color stripes and a triangle at the top is hung in front of him at the stage.

* Flag cancellations are a type of machine cancellation incorporating a design of the United States flag with the stripes serving as the " killer ".

Second, unlike the American flag, the outermost stripes are white, not red ; so as not to violate the heraldic rule of tincture.

The primary logo depicts a Continental soldier in navy blue with white stars on his shoulder and maroon stripes flowing to his left, a reference to the U. S. flag.

A new national flag ( three horizontal stripes, white-red-white ) was adopted, along with a new coat of arms ( Pahonia -- a mounted knight, Saint George, Patron Saint of Belarus, with a drawn sword — the emblem of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania ).

The flag of Kiribati: the upper half is red with a gold frigatebird ( Fregata minor, in Gilbertese: te eitei ) flying over a gold rising sun ( otintaai ), and the lower half is blue with three horizontal wavy white stripes to represent the ocean and the 3 groups ( Gilbert, Phoenix and Line Islands ).

Named the flag of the Patria Vieja (" Old Fatherland "), the flag had three horizontal stripes of blue, white and yellow.

This flag had three equal stripes: blue, white, and red.