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Light blue Grito de Lares flag with light blue shade. Light blue, or sky blue, variation of light blue Grito de Lares flag matching the colors of the light blue flag of Puerto Rico and the light blue Grito de Lares flag exhibited in Puerto Rico, one of two original versions of the flag available today, uses the following color shades:
[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. It is mentioned in 1872 in the chronicle Historia de la insurrección de Lares (History of the insurrection of Lares) by José Pérez Moris, thus its ...
Manuel Rojas house in 1965. The Lares uprising, commonly known as the Grito de Lares, was a planned uprising that occurred on September 23, 1868. Grito was synonymous with a "cry for independence" and that cry was made in Brazil with el Grito de Ipiranga, in Mexico with El Grito de Dolores and in Cuba with El Grito de Yara. [5]
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.
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.
This Grito de Lares flag is considered to have been adopted by the Revolutionary Committee of Puerto Rico for the Grito de Lares revolt of 1868 against Spanish authority in Puerto Rico. However, there are no primary written sources to authenticate this flag, thus its originality is in dispute.
El Grito de Lares In this Spanish name , the first or paternal surname is Rojas and the second or maternal family name is Luzardo . Manuel Rojas Luzardo (c. 1831 – October 14, 1903) was a Puerto Rican-Venezuelan commander of the Puerto Rican Liberation Army and one of the main leaders of the Grito de Lares uprising against Spanish rule in ...
[16] [32] Categorizing the flag as “la verdadera bandera de Lares” (“the real flag of Lares”), the Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Puerto Rico y el Caribe (CEAPRC) (Center of Advanced Studies of Puerto Rico and the Caribbean), claims that primary sources like Pérez Moris’ account of the revolt prove that this flag is the authentic ...