flag of the Three Guarantees

{{Short description|Historic Mexican flag, was the first National flag.}}

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The Flag of the Three Guarantees of the Trigarante Army is considered the first official national flag of Mexico. It was the flag of the royalist and insurgent armed forces that united under the so-called Plan of Iguala, and was the work of the author of the Mexican independence Agustín de Iturbide, made in the city of Iguala by the tailor José Magdaleno Ocampo in the year 1821, in what Iturbide called the first year of sovereignty.

Symbolism

This flag, which is still preserved, is rectangular and was formed by three stripes of equal thickness that cross it diagonally. Each stripe has one and they are ordered from left to right and bottom to top as follows: white, green and red; with an eight-pointed gold star on each diagonal stripe, making a total of three golden stars.{{Cite web |title=Bandera del Ejército Trigarante |url=https://laorquesta.mx/bandera-del-ejercito-trigarante-la-verdadera-independencia-de-mexico/ |access-date=2024-10-23 |website=La Orquesta}}

The meaning of the colors of the historical national flag are as follows:

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Name !width=100\|Color !HEX Code !Symbol
White \|style = "background-color: #FFFFFF; color: #FFFFFF"\| \|#FFFFFF \|Religion
Green \|style = "background-color: #006847; color: #006847\| \|#006847 \|Land
Red \|style = "background-color: #C90016; color: #C90016\| \|#C90016 \|Blood of the heroes

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Name

!width=100|Color

!HEX Code

!Symbol

White

|style = "background-color: #FFFFFF; color: #FFFFFF"|

|#FFFFFF

|Religion

Green

|style = "background-color: #006847; color: #006847|

|#006847

|Land

Red

|style = "background-color: #C90016; color: #C90016|

|#C90016

|Blood of the heroes

History

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This army, being the result of the union of all the Mexican armed forces, needed a flag that would express this heroic fact of national independence in 1821. The case had been foreseen, and thus, on the day appointed for the promulgation of the plan, José Magdaleno Ocampo, a tailor in charge of making it, gave Iturbide's tricolor flag, whose essential elements remain in the current one as the Mexican Empire Regency.{{Cite web |title=Mexican Government Council |url=https://www.gob.mx/segob/articulos/conoce-la-bandera-del-ejercito-trigarante-1821 |access-date=2024-10-23 |website=www.gob.mx}}

During the government of Mexican former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the flag of the Three Guarantees was flown in the main square of Mexico City to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the consummation of Mexico's independence.{{Cite web |title=La bandera trigarante ondeó de nuevo en México. |url=https://www.elfinanciero.com.mx/nacional/2021/09/27/la-bandera-trigarante-ondeo-de-nuevo-en-mexico-asi-fueron-los-festejos-del-bicentenario/|access-date=2024-10-23 |website=www.elfinanciero.com.mx}}

Other flags

Bandera de las Compañías Militares de Tabasco.svg|Flag of Tabasco

Flag_of_Coahuila_y_Tejas.svg|1824–1835
Flag of the State of Coahuila y Tejas as a part of Mexico

Bandera de Yucatán.png|Flag of Yucatán

Flag of Mexico.svg|Flag of Mexico

References

External links

List of Mexican flags

Three Guarantees

Category:Symbols of Guerrero