Unidentified flag reported in 'Encyclopaedia Britannica' 1771 (Spain) (original) (raw)
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Description
First of three Spanish flags listed in the Encyclopaedia Britannica 1771. Horizontal tricolour: top 1/4 in red, bottom 1/4 in blue, and the middle in yellow. Similar to the flag used by the Spanish Republic.
Randy Young, 31 Jul 1998
Strange flag. Absolutely unknown to me. In 1771 the red-yellow-red flag didn't exist yet. After [the end of the Spanish War of Succession in] 1714 the French rulers of Spain used the Bourbon white flag.
Jaume Ollé, 03 Aug 1998
The flag of Encyclopaedia Britannica is not very strange. It might have been a variant of Spanish colours used in the Americas. There have been used flags of red-yellow and blue stripes even before 1785. The blue for America (or overseas). We are still searching [at the _Archiv für Flaggenkunde_] for a solution about this flag.
Ralf Stelter, 13 Jun 1999