Florida (United States)

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Rich Orman

• Origin of the red diagonal cross
• Florida flag of 1861
• Flag of West Florida

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• United States
• States of the United States
• Miccousukee Tribe

The red diagonal cross is based on the Confederate war flag. [güt92]

Jan Kuhlmann, 1995-DEC-04

The flag was adopted in 1900. It was revised in the 1980's to conform to a corrected state seal.

Nick Artimovich, 1996-JUL-31

The. C.S.A. had no offical flag for the first 24 days. The first flag widely used in the Confederacy was the Bonnie Blue, which was displayed throughout the war. It was the flag of the short-lived Republic of West Florida. This area extending from the panhandle of Florida to the Mississippi River was included in the Louisiana Colony of France in 1682. When Louisiana was ceded to Spain in 1762, West Florida went to Great Britain. There was a world war in the late 1700's. During that war, Spain took West Florida from Great Britain in1769. The British also lost many other North American Colonies during that world war. In 1800, Louisiana was returned to France. Spain claimed that the sale did not include West Florida. In 1803, France sold the Louisiana Territory to the U.S. West Florida had many British settlers, but was ruled by Spain. They rebelled in 1810 and established a republic a blue flag with a single white star. It was absorbed by the U.S. a short time thereafter and became part of the states of Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. The tradition of a free republic continued and when these states withdrew from the United States, they used variations of this Bonnie Blue Flag.

William M. Grimes-Wyatt, 1996-APR-29

Florida adopted a flag with a white field with a green tree and a red vertical bar on fly, with a white star on blue canton on Jan. 26, 1861.

William M. Grimes-Wyatt, 1996-APR-29