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The Grito de Lares flag (Spanish: Bandera del Grito de Lares), most commonly known as the Lares flag (Spanish: Bandera de Lares), represents the Grito de Lares (Cry of Lares) revolt of 1868, the first of two short-lived rebellions against Spanish rule in Puerto Rico.
Grito de Lares (Cry of Lares), also referred to as the Lares revolt, the Lares rebellion, the Lares uprising, or the Lares revolution, was the first of two short-lived revolts against Spanish rule in Puerto Rico, staged by the Revolutionary Committee of Puerto Rico on September 23, 1868.
Mariana Bracetti Cuevas (also spelled Bracety) (July 26, 1825 – February 25, 1903) was a patriot and leader of the Puerto Rico independence movement.In 1868, she knitted the Grito de Lares flag that was intended to be used as the national emblem of Puerto Rico in its first of two attempts to overthrow Spanish rule, and to establish the island as a sovereign republic.
The most commonly used flags of Puerto Rico are the current flag, which represents the people of the commonwealth of Puerto Rico; the Grito de Lares flag, which represents the Grito of Lares (Cry of Lares) revolt against Spanish rule in 1868; municipal flags, which represent the 78 municipalities of the archipelago; political flags, which ...
The flag was discovered in 2022. [1] [2] This original Grito de Lares flag was adopted by the Revolutionary Committee of Puerto Rico for the Grito de Lares (Cry of Lares) revolt of 1868 against Spanish authority in Puerto Rico.
English: Illustration of Puerto Rico’s Grito de Lares (Cry of Lares) revolt flag, modeled after the Grito de Lares (Cry of Lares) flag exhibited at the Museum of History, Anthropology and Art of the University of Puerto Rico since 1954. [1] Several flags were made for the revolt in 1868, but only two have survived to this day.
Brugman and his son were executed by the Spanish authorities. Mathias Brugman (birth name: Mathias Brugman Duliebre ) (January 3, 1811 – September 30, 1868), a.k.a. Mathias Bruckman , was a leader in Puerto Rico 's independence revolution against Spain known as El Grito de Lares (English: The Cry of Lares ) .
Flag of the Grito de Lares (1868) There were several flags made for the revolt, but only two have survived to this day. The oldest known Lares flag is quartered by a centered white cross, with two bottom red rectangles and two top light blue rectangles, the left of which bears a tiled, centered, five-pointed white star.