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Flag Of HaitiHaiti Coat Of Arms
The flag of Haiti was adopted on February 25, 1987. It is divided into two equal sized rectangles, the top one blue and the bottom one red. The coat of arms of Haiti appears on a white panel in the center of the Haiti flag. Haitian students are taught the historical story of their country flag as being created by Jean-Jacques Dessalines, on May 18, 1803, in the township of Arcahaie, near Port-au-Prince. It is recounted that Dessalines ripped apart a French blue, white, and red flag, threw away the white and asked a young local girl, Catherine Flon, to sew the remaining parts together. Her handiwork was mounted horizontally on a staff and became Haiti's new national symbol that publicly designated the country free of it's French territorial oppression. Haitian Flag ColorsThe blue represented the population of 450,000 ancient slaves and the red represented the mixed races known as mulattoes. The white appropriately disappeared, emphasizing Dessalines wanting nothing to do with the white man.Haiti Coat of ArmsThe Coat of Arms shows a display of weapons showing the country is ready to defend their freedom. The Royal Palm tree stands for independence. On the very top of the palm is the Cap of Liberty.The National Motto, 'L'Union Fait La Force', is shown on a white scroll. In English it means 'Unity Makes Strength'. TOP of Flag Of Haiti
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