Fig. 1. Flag of Santa Fe: 2 blue horizontal stripes, white centre stripe, red diagonal stripe [Flag for the corsair "Confederacion" same colours except blue and white stripes vertical and not horizontal]. Fig. 2. Flag of Corrientes: Blue top stripe, red centre, white bottom. Flag for the corsair "Maria" white top, blue middle and red bottom. Flag of Cordoba: red top, white centre and blue bottom. Flag of Misiones: red topf green centre, white bottom. Another Flag for Misiones red top, blue centre and white bottom. Fig. 3. Corsair Flag: White field, blue cresent with white cross. Fig. 4. Flag of Entre Rios: White centre stripe, left-hand side quarters of top and bottom stripes blue, right-hand quarters red. Fig.5. Flag of the Free Towns [Bandera de los Pueblos Libres] White centre stripe, top three stripes; two blue with centre stripe red, the same configuration for the bottom three stripes. Fig. 6. Flag of the Uruguayan Insurgents [Bandera de los insurgentes Orientales] Blue and white horizontal stripes. This article is in memory of my late friend Jose da Camara Arrarte of Montevideo who died last year, he sent me two books which have allowed me to redraw these illustrations for E.D. Source: "Las Banderas de Artigas" by Agustin Beraza, Pub. instituto Historico y Geografico del Uruguay, Montevideo 1957. "Los Corsarios de Artigas", by Beraza, Pub. Centro de Estudious Historicos Navales y Maritimos, Montevideo 1978. Back to Table of Contents -- El Dorado Vol V No. 2 Back to El Dorado List of Issues Back to MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 1992 by The South and Central American Military Historians Society This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com