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Post by paopadd on Nov 18, 2008 16:24:06 GMT -5
Hi friends, someone told me that inside the Museum of the Naval Academy of Annapolis there are hundred of american and captured flags , among them some philippine flags. Someone have some contacts there ? I sent a couple of e-mails but i never received any kind of reply.
Mabuhay !
Paolo
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Post by paopadd on Nov 18, 2008 8:48:10 GMT -5
At the beginning of the revolution The filipino fighters of the Katipunan wore no standard uniform exept the Katipuneros of the " Supremo ", Andres Bonifacio ; on a spanish account on the battle of San juan del Monte, in 1896 we can found out the following interesting words: " they ( the insurgents ) wore red trousers and white shirts... " Maybe the tradition of red trousers for some particular corps start in 1896 until the Aguinaldo's period....
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Post by paopadd on Sept 3, 2008 20:59:09 GMT -5
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Post by paopadd on Sept 3, 2008 20:58:03 GMT -5
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Post by paopadd on Sept 2, 2008 13:54:38 GMT -5
According to some sources King Norodom I of Cambodia had his personal tagalog guards to protect his body, the Sultan of Sulu had sikh guards. Probably Tagalogs and the Sikhs were reliable persons more than the people of the entourage of the Sultan of Cambodia and Sulu..
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Post by paopadd on Aug 31, 2008 15:48:02 GMT -5
Sorry, the Guards of the Sultan of Sulu were Sikh, not Gurkhas... .
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Post by paopadd on Aug 31, 2008 15:05:19 GMT -5
Hi I will post soon some images of the personal guard of Sultan Jamalul Kiram II of Sulu, all the members of that guard were Gurkhas from Nepal.
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Post by paopadd on Aug 30, 2008 14:57:39 GMT -5
Hii friends, you can take a look at my web site on Moro Sultanates flags and symbols ( www.webalice.it/paopadd ) there you can find out many battle flags of the Moros of Sulu and Mindanao . Mabuhay Paolo ( paopadd )
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Post by paopadd on Aug 23, 2008 17:02:10 GMT -5
I'm agree with RayadillO about the carabao head; it is a typical symbol of the Country so we can add it on the C.o. A. ( in the last times also Pedra A. paterno had a personal coat of arms with a bolo and horns of carabao because he claimed to be a descendent of a pre-hispanic nobilty and proclamed himself the Prince of Luzon).The sun must be a sun not a star because the flag and the coat of arms of the Philippines are the result of a filipino struggle for freedom and the sun, the mythological sun derived from it and i think it will be good to restore it on C.o.A. and flag. The rays are 8 , the 8 provinces that started the revolution against Spain . Moros fought spanish but never had a great weight in the filipino revolution so we can't change or modify the sun adding 1 or more rays at the first 8. The sealion, symbols of Manila grant by Spain is a nice symbols but it is also a colonial symbol .
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Post by paopadd on Aug 22, 2008 16:07:06 GMT -5
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Post by paopadd on Aug 21, 2008 15:18:27 GMT -5
Hi ! Did you know that the colonial symbols on the Coat of Arms of the Philippines : the American eagle and the lion of Spain were deleted in 1987 ? ( under Section 14 of the administrative code of 1987 ) . On my opinion I think that is a great thing, what do you think on this topic ? Mabuhay Paolo
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Post by paopadd on Aug 8, 2008 15:00:06 GMT -5
Hello Art, i'm agree with you; the gonfalon captured by the W.Volunteers has two colors : red and blue, like the Guidon of general Torres.
stay well
Paolo
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Post by paopadd on Aug 7, 2008 6:36:28 GMT -5
Hi friends, one was a gonfalon of the KKK, at present it is in a spanish museum, on my web site (http://xoomer.alice.it/watawat) you can find out a better image of it; the other one was not a flag , was as you sad : "worn like masonic aprons around the waist".In some publications they say it is a KKK apron but i'm not sure about this version.
Mabuhay !
Paolo
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Post by paopadd on Aug 7, 2008 6:25:41 GMT -5
A note on the image published by r2ro (Art ) the gonfalon was divided in two parts or stripes; one was red, the other one was blue but in some web sites , researches and charts the field of the gonfalon was red. It is a mistake!
Mabuhay !
Paolo
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Post by paopadd on Aug 7, 2008 6:05:45 GMT -5
Thanks dimasalang for postiing the flag and for the image and notes on General Torres. Mabuhay Paolo
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Post by paopadd on Aug 6, 2008 17:26:43 GMT -5
Thanks Art i will post the image of the guidon of Gen . Torres very soon, at present it is in a U.S.A. military Museum.
Mabuhay
PAOLO
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Post by paopadd on Aug 6, 2008 13:40:16 GMT -5
Hi friend, i'm happy to know you are from Batangas;me i'm italian but my wife is from Santo Tomas, the place of Gen. Malvar; unfortunatly Gen. Malvar didn't have his personal flag, i suppose he adopted the national flag of that period.... . About the word "gonfalon" we must know that not all the swallow tails flags are standards or guidons, this word is a common word also in the present dictionary of terms adopted by all the vexillologist. i will publish the image of the guidon of Gen. Torres very soon.
Feel free to write me also a private e-mail if you want.
Mabuhay !
Paolo
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Post by paopadd on Aug 5, 2008 14:35:50 GMT -5
I think it will be better if all the filipino flags and standars will come back home in the Philippines, in a future museum dedicated to the filipino flag and its history.
Mabuhay !
Paolo
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Post by paopadd on Aug 5, 2008 14:24:59 GMT -5
Hi, more than a streamer/flag we can say it is a gonfalon ; i knew it but not the source of the image, the shape of it remind us to the old flags , standards and gonfalons of the early Katipunan, so it is not a gonfalon or standard of cavalry because they had a different shape... if you like i will show you a (supposed ) cavalry flag of General Torres.
Mabuhay !
Paolo
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Post by paopadd on Jul 21, 2008 18:20:07 GMT -5
I'm totally agree with you jogador96: " there was no time to devise a system for imprinting and distributing standard issue flags. Each unit often had to improvise using what was available....."
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