HAITI    (Republic of)    (Repiblik Ayiti)    [www.ht]

            slavery units : gourde        slavery tongue : French        tongue : Haitian Creole        10000000 idiot monkeys on 27750 km²

            puke sects : X 87%    pagan + other + voodoo 13%

            This flag is displayed since 1804 when Haiti became independent from France grace to Toussaint Louverture. Yet the blue-red flag has been in challenge with another blak-red flag since the 1805 Dessaline Empire. The History of Haiti is marked by both flags, the blue-red bein "republican & democratic" while the blak-red bein "monarkist & dictatorial" like the Duvalier dictature for instance. When the Duvalier era collapsed the 1804 blue-red original flag was restored. It's based on the French Tricolor but without the white band (Haiti was a French colony from 1642 till 1804). Blue represents the Blacks while red the Mulattoes. The present pattern was (re)adopted on 25 FEBRUARY 1986.



           




                1986    (republic)    (3:5)

                1964   (dictature of François Duvalier then dictature of his son Jean Claude Duvalier)   (1:2)

                1934   (end of US ocupation - end of the US protectorate only in 1936)

                +        1915    (ocupied by US troops from 1914 - US protectorate from 1915)

                1859    (republic)

                1849   (Empire of Haiti with Faustin Soulouque)   (coat of arms of Faustin Soulouque - motto on the upper scroll : DIEU MA PATRIE ET MON ÉPÉE)

                1820   (reunification of both "North" and "South" regimes by Jean-Pierre Boyer)

                +        1811    (North = Kingdom Of Haiti + South = Republic Of Haiti)

                +        1806    (North = State Of Haiti + South = Republic Of Haiti)

                1805    (Empire of Jean Jack Dessalines)

                1804    (independence - republic)

                1803   (independentist flag)    (LIBERTÉ OU LA MORT : chic !!!!)

                colonial 1797    (France)

                colonial 1793    (UK)

                revolutionary 1791-1798    (flag of the Haitian Insurgents in the Haitian Revolution)    (I love this set of colorz violet-blak-white - I love this flag !!!!)

                revolutionary 1790

                colonial 1697   (Spain recognizes French possession of Île de la Tortue et Côte de Saint-Domingue - France)

               1670-1671   (Lawless buccaneers revolt against French West India Company rule on Tortuga Island)   (ruled by pirats : just cool !!!!)

                colonial 1664   (French colony Île de la Tortue et Côte de Saint-Domingue - France)

                +        +       colonial 1625    (Spanish + French + British "turn over" - many battles and various settlements on Tortuga Island)

                colonial 1580

                colonial 1516

                colonial 1492   (colony of Hispaniola - Spain)





            VEXILLO / HERALDIC NOTE #1 :

                Greater coat of arms of King Henri Christophe of Haiti (1811-1820).

            The motto of the Kingdom of Haiti is DIEU MA CAUSE ET MON ÉPÉE. This motto MUST NOT be confuzed with Faustin Soulouque's Empire.

                Greater coat of arms of Emperor  Faustin Élie Soulouque of Haiti (1849-1859).

            The motto of the Empire of Faustin Élie Soulouque of Haiti is DIEU MA PATRIE ET MON ÉPÉE. This motto MUST NOT be confuzed with Henri Christophe's Kingdom.


            VEXILLO / HERALDIC NOTE #2 :

                King Henri Christophe of Haiti adopted a + simple coat of arms in 1820, the last year of his reign.

            motto EX CINERIBUS NASCITUR = I will reborn from my ashes


            + 4 BONUS STUF :

MARKO's proj for a NEW COA - MUCH SIMPLE (= better) + rememberance toward Haiti's History


                       MARKO's proj for a NEW SEAL

                To me, putting the WHOLE coat of arms (as it is officially on the flag of Haiti) is a BAD idea as it's too big & too complicated. That's why I think Haiti's flag loox quite horrible with the white square / rectangle  with the arms.


                       MARKO's proj for a NEW FLAG - MUCH SIMPLE (= better) + rememberance toward Haiti's History


                       MARKO's proj ALTERNATE - For ESTHETIC reasons I prefer this one inspired from the flag of 1803.