8 sentences with 'flag'

Example sentences and phrases with the word flag and other words derived from it.

« For example, German nationalism was powerful and popular after the Napoleonic wars; in 1817, just two years after the end of the Congress of Vienna, German nationalists gathered in the Wartburg, where Martin Luther had first translated the Bible into German, flying the black, red and gold tricolour flag that was to become (more than a century later) the official flag of the German nation. »
« Slovakia has adopted its traditional ensign, to which it incorporated a Slovak emblem, while the Czechs adopted the old Czechoslovak flag. »
« A few days later Belgrano decided to give his army a flag with the colours of the cockade. He unfurled it for the first time on 27 February when inaugurating two artillery batteries by the Paraná River. »
« Some time later, Belgrano had this flag blessed in the parish church of Jujuy. »
« Although it is true that this national ensign, the flag, was not approved by the government of Buenos Aires, its use soon became widespread and in 1816 it was declared the national flag. »
« The new leader managed to reorganise the troops and, while in Jujuy, had his flag blessed there on 25 May. »
« In a correspondence to Godoy Cruz he wrote: "How long will we wait to declare our independence! Don't you think it is ridiculous to mint money, to have a flag and a national flag, and finally, to make war on the sovereign on whom we believe we depend? What more do we need than to say it? »
« The Army of the Andes had the flag of an independent nation. The flag created by Manuel Belgrano in 1812 was adopted by the Congress meeting in Tucumán on 25 July and this decision was communicated to San Martín for his compliance. »

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