The flag was changed when Upper Volta became Burkina Faso on 4 August 1984.

Upper Volta flag

The original flag of Upper Volta, adopted at independence, contained three horizontal stripes of black, white, and red.

Thus, the triumvirate sent a warning to Belgrano not to fight under the flag, but by the time the reply had arrived, Belgrano had moved to the north, following the previous orders that requested him to strengthen the patriotic position in the Upper Peru after the defeat of Juan José Castelli at the Battle of Huaqui.

This coat of arms is similar to the old Upper Volta coat of arms ( see below ), with the Burkina Faso flag replacing the Upper Volta flag in the middle.

This somewhat resembles the current emblem, except that the enclosing shield has a blue background, the inescutcheon is based on the flag of Upper Volta with the superimposed letters " RHV " ( for République de Haute-Volta ), and the motto was Unité, Travail, Justice (" Unity, Labour, Justice ").

The Upper School also offers the same sports as the Middle School, but with the exception of flag football, girls soccer and boys ultimate frisbee in the fall, and boys soccer and boys and girls tennis in the spring.

* The flag of Upper Volta

Upper Elementary clubs include: the drama club, the Improv Olympics club, the newspaper club, the dance club, the ski and snowboard club, the flag football club, and the basketball club.

Since the Upper Hungary coat of arms was already part of the coat of arms of the Kingdom of Hungary at that time, only the color of the three mountains had to be changed ( it happened on the Slovak flag for the first time ) from green to " blue " to receive the red-white-blue combination.

The river is divided into three parts — the Black Volta, White Volta, and Red Volta, which form the colors of the national flag corresponding to parts of the river.

All but the most rabid of Confederate flag wavers admit that the Old Southern tradition is defunct in actuality and sigh that its passing was accompanied by the disappearance of many genteel and aristocratic traditions of the reputedly languid ante-bellum way of life.

Mama was very patriotic, and one of the duties she was proudest of was repairing the edges of the flag that flew above the White House.

The resolution under discussion at the convention was to require the boards of election to instruct judges to properly display the American flag.

In the corner was the soldier with the white flag.

It was covered in the Confederate flag and laid in state for several hours.

He was buried just outside Greeneville – with his body wrapped in an American flag and a copy of the U. S. Constitution placed under his head, according to his wishes.

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.

On December 30, 1943, during the Japanese occupation, Subhas Chandra Bose, who was controversially allied with the Japanese, first raised the flag of Indian independence.

The George Cross was given by King George VI himself and is now an emblem on the Maltese national flag.

the inclusion of the term " indivisible " in the Pledge of Allegiance to the United States flag ); before this, the construction " the United States are " was more common.

This flag was also the battle flag of the Umkhonto we Sizwe.

In 2001, the National Guard unit was designated an official military unit of the Bulgarian army and one of the symbols of state authority, along with the flag, the coat of arms and the national anthem.

A flag was later erected near the spot the ball cleared the back wall, with simply the word " HERE " upon it.

Following the rapid change from a loose formation to a rigid line of battle both fleets raised their colours ; each British ship added additional Union Flags in its rigging in case its main flag was shot away.

U-27 was lying off Nicosians port quarter and firing into it when Baralong appeared on the scene, flying the ensign of the United States as a false flag.

When she was half a mile away, Baralong ran up a signal flag indicating that she was going to rescue Nicosians crew.

U-41 was in the process of sinking SS Urbino with gunfire when Baralong arrived on the scene, flying an American flag.

In his account he described how “ on one side there was a wooden stage with two streamers – Hatuey beer and Bacardí rum – on each end and a Cuban flag in the middle.

The first retired number flag, Ernie Banks ' number 14, was raised on the left field pole, and they have alternated since then.

The exact derivation of the term is unknown, but it has been thought that in early Canadian football, the scoring of a single was signalled with a red flag.

The flag of Armenia consists of three equal horizontal bands of red ( top ), blue, and orange.

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 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.

The former national flag of South Africa ( from 1927 – 1994 ) had, as part of a feature contained within its central white bar, a horizontal flag of the Transvaal Republic ( ZAR ).

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 the Netherlands is a horizontal tricolour of red, white, and blue.

Partly out of respect for him, the first flag adopted by the Dutch was a horizontal tricolour of orange, white, and blue.

The flag of Germany is a tricolour consisting of three equal horizontal bands displaying the national colours of Germany: black, red, and gold.

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 ).

The national flag of Chile, consists of two unequal horizontal bands of white and red and a blue square the same height as the white band in the canton, which bears a white five-pointed star in the center.

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

The flag of Liberia, founded in 1847, also includes a single star on the canton, but it has multiple horizontal stripes similar to the United States Flag.

The design of the flag is simple with two equal horizontal bands, red ( top ) and white ( bottom ) with an overall ratio of 2: 3.

The flag of Liechtenstein () consists of two equal horizontal bands of blue ( top ) and red with a gold ducal crown on the hoist side of the blue band.

The flag of Luxembourg (,, ) consists of three horizontal stripes, red, white and blue, and can be in 1: 2 or 3: 5 ratio.

The flag was defined as a horizontal tricolor of red, white, and blue in 1848, but it was not officially adopted until 1972.

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.

The flag of Suriname is formed by five horizontal bands of green ( top, double width ), white, red ( quadruple width ), white, and green ( double width ).

The official flag of Sporting de Gijón consist of, in a rectangular field with ratio 2: 3, nine equal horizontal stripes of red ( top and bottom ) alternating with white.