Tricolour flag template

Not satisfied by the mere streamer, the sailors demanded that the tricolor be more prominent. On October 24, , the ensign received a canton upper left corner of the flag with red, white, and blue stripes in a vertical arrangement, surrounded by a blue and red border. While the colors were in the opposite order that they are in now, this was the first time the vertical arrangement of three colors was used in a flag.

On February 15, , the colors were changed into their present order and adopted as the national flag for the remainder of the French Revolution. The Tricolore had a profound effect on flags around the world. Ironically, it was the French colony of Saint Domingue who first used a vertical stripe flag to represent an independence movement; a blue and red stripe design without the white stripe which was considered symbolic of their French oppressors. When they won their independence and formed the nation of Haiti in , the dual-color, vertically-striped flag became their first national flag.

This spawned a whole family of vertically-striped, tricolor flags including Mexico , Belgium , Ireland , Italy , and Iraq Today, the tricolor family includes many former French colonies in Africa who adopted the design such as Chad , Ivory Coast , and Senegal.

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