Page 35 - (DK) Complete Flags of the World

North America

Haiti

Ratio: 3:5 Adopted: May 18, 1803 Usage: National and Civil

For official and Blue and red
state purposes the are taken from
flag is charged the French
with the national Tricolore
arms on a central
white rectangle

North America
Haiti became a French colony in 1697, but in 1803
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a rebellion broke out. Independence was granted on
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The blue and red of the flag were period from 1964–86, during the
retained after a French Tricolore was regime of the Duvalier family.
torn up by the rebel Jean-Jacques Since 1843 the flag for official
Dessalines in 1803. The two parts and state use has had the arms on a
were stitched together horizontally white panel in the center. The coat of
to make a new flag. arms depicts a trophy of weapons
However a rival flag of vertical ready to defend freedom, and a royal
black and red panels was also used at palm topped with a Cap of Liberty
various times, most recently in the for the country’s independence.

The Cap of Liberty
ARMS OF HAITI
The royal palm
symbolizes
Weapons reflect the independence
people’s willingness to
defend their liberty
The national motto—
“L’Union Fait La
Force” meaning
“Union is Strength”

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