Author Topic: Colonial Flags for the Congo (Read 3351 times)

flags_of_war · « **on:** October 12, 2016, 01:03:22 PM »

Guys

Looking to do a few different flags that can be used for Congo. Just some Generic British, German, French and Belgian flags. These can be used by Troops and Camps.

Can anyone think of anything else that would be good to add?

Sir Rodney Ffing · « **Reply #1 on:** October 12, 2016, 02:25:04 PM »

There is the Zanzibari flag, although it seems to have been plain red!

cdr · « **Reply #2 on:** October 12, 2016, 05:04:08 PM »

Congo free state flag ?

Carl

Kommando_J · « **Reply #3 on:** October 12, 2016, 06:22:01 PM »

A yankee flag?

Rob Herrick · « **Reply #4 on:** October 12, 2016, 10:22:15 PM »

Quote from: flags_of_war on October 12, 2016, 01:03:22 PM

Guys

Looking to do a few different flags that can be used for Congo. Just some Generic British, German, French and Belgian flags. These can be used by Troops and Camps.

Can anyone think of anything else that would be good to add?

As mentioned below, you need an American flag suitable for the Stanley expedition, and every Congo Free State Company carried the yellow star on a medium blue background flag.

Also as mentioned, caravans of Zanzibar carried the blood red flag. While it seems simple, a shaded one sounds like a good investment.

German East African expeditions carried black, white, red horizontal tricolors. There's also flags for various troops of the Abushiri rebellion, an example of which is here: https://www.flagcollection.com/itemdetails.php?CollectionItem_ID=2664

You might also want to do some Mahdist flags, there was a good deal of skirmishing down in Equatoria, which Congo rules might be suitable for. Egyptian and Sudanese troops had company flags, which also might be useful for Equatoria, or Mahdists in general.

Italians carried flags as late as Adowa, so those would be useful.

Plynkes · « **Reply #5 on:** October 13, 2016, 09:57:43 AM »

Explorers often carried the flag of the Sultan of Zanzibar as well as that of their own country. In fact, just about everybody from trade caravans to local chiefs did the same, in the hope that it would dissuade any attacks, as it implied one had the Sultan's protection, and thus you might be risking his retaliation by attacking.

Local Arab leaders would have their own version of the Sultan's red flag, distinguishing themselves by adding strips of white or blue cloth to it (either horizontal or vertical). There is one eyewitness account of a band of askari-for-hire who carried a white flag with inscriptions from the Koran on it.

One thing to remember if you are into all things Portuguese is that they had a different flag in the 19th Century: it was white and blue, rather than the green and red one we're familiar with today. This flag was carried by all sorts of ne'er-do-wells such as the mixed-race Mambari slaving gangs and the Chikunda slavers, gun-runners and elephant hunters. It was a similar situation to that with the Zanizibari flag. Even though these groups generally had no official connection to the Portuguese state, they hoped the flag would afford them some protection.

flags_of_war · « **Reply #6 on:** October 13, 2016, 11:37:27 AM »

Cheers guys, this gives me something to work with

flags_of_war · « **Reply #7 on:** October 19, 2016, 02:20:59 PM »

Got a few of the flags mentioned done. Hopefully get them up on the website soon.

Sir Rodney Ffing · « **Reply #8 on:** October 19, 2016, 04:13:27 PM »

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Got a few of the flags mentioned done. Hopefully get them up on the website soon.

Well that was quick work! Which ones?

flags_of_war · « **Reply #9 on:** October 19, 2016, 04:45:59 PM »

Congo Free State
Britain
Germany
USA
France
Belgium
Zanzibar
Portugal

Sir Rodney Ffing · « **Reply #10 on:** October 19, 2016, 06:19:16 PM »

Great! I need Britain, Congo and Zanzibar as a start

Plynkes · « **Reply #11 on:** October 20, 2016, 09:19:27 AM »

Curious to know which U.S. flag you went for, as they had about five or six different ones between the 1880s and the start of the Great War, what with so many territories becoming states in that period.

(My favourite is the 1890 one, as I think it is the last one that had the stars in a circular formation, which looks much cooler than the current arrangement.)

flags_of_war · « **Reply #12 on:** October 20, 2016, 10:35:05 AM »

Quote from: Plynkes on October 20, 2016, 09:19:27 AM

Curious to know which U.S. flag you went for, as they had about five or six different ones between the 1880s and the start of the Great War, what with so many territories becoming states in that period.

(My favourite is the 1890 one, as I think it is the last one that had the stars in a circular formation, which looks much cooler than the current arrangement.)

I went for the 37 stars (1867–77) as i was doing it based on the first Stanley expedition (1874-1877). Always happy to do a few more as well.

Kommando_J · « **Reply #13 on:** October 20, 2016, 01:29:54 PM »

An Egyptian/Sudanese flag might be an idea, plenty of slaver groups started off in Khartoum rather than Zanzibar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Egypt

flags_of_war · « **Reply #14 on:** October 21, 2016, 09:10:27 AM »

Quote from: Kommando_J on October 20, 2016, 01:29:54 PM

An Egyptian/Sudanese flag might be an idea, plenty of slaver groups started off in Khartoum rather than Zanzibar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Egypt

I can get them done no problem

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