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Frederick Gordon Brownell OMSS SM & Bar MMM KStJ [ 1] (8 March 1940 – 10 May 2019) [ 2] was a South African herald, vexillologist, and genealogist . He designed the flag of South Africa and claimed to have designed the flag of Namibia. [ 2][ 3]
The Continental Union Flag (often referred to as the first American flag, Cambridge Flag, and Grand Union Flag) was the flag of the United Colonies from 1775 to 1776, and the de facto flag of the United States until 1777, when the 13 star flag was adopted by the Continental Congress . The Continental Union Flag was so called because it combined ...
Orange, white, and blue horizontal stripes, on the white stripe, a backwards Union Flag towards the hoist, the Orange Free State flag hanging vertically and the flag of the South African Republic, towards the fly. Used for both the Union and later Republic of South Africa. Flag of South Africa.
The flag of South Africa was designed in March 1994 and adopted on 27 April 1994, during South Africa 's 1994 general election, to replace the previous flag used from 1928–1994 . The flag has horizontal bands of red (on the top) and blue (on the bottom), of equal width, separated by a central green band which splits into a horizontal "Y ...
A variant of "Oranje, Blanje, Blou" with a lighter shade of blue used from 1982 until the end of the National Party's reign in 1994. The South African "Red Ensign" was used unofficially as a de facto national flag until 1928; it continued being used sparsely in limited contexts until the early 1950s. The flag of South Africa from 1928 to 1994 ...
The Grand Union Flag, referred to as the "Flag of America," was the de facto naval ensign of the United States until June 14, 1777, when the 13 star flag was adopted by Congress. It was first hoisted aboard Commodore Esek Hopkins' flagship Alfred on the Delaware River by Lieutenant John Paul Jones on December 3, 1775. [2]
An earlier version of the American flag's current design was adopted by the Second Continental Congress on June 14, 1777, though the date wouldn't be celebrated until a hundred years later.
The South African Republic, which existed from 1852 to 1877, 1881 to 1902, and 1914 to 1915, used two flags: (1) the so-called 'Vierkleur' (English: Four-colour) from 1857 to 1874, and again from 1875 to 1877 and 1881 to 1902, and (2) the so-called 'Burgers Flag' from 1874 to 1875. They were superseded by the flag of Transvaal.