Paraguayan national flag of 1826-1842

Last modified: 2003-03-01 by antonio martins
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• About the flag

• History of the paraguayan national flag
• Paraguay
• Independentist flags in La Plata region (Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay: 1810-1840)

In 1826 a new flag was introduced, but the tricolored was kept as an alternate flag. But when Dr [José Gaspar Rodríguez de] Francia died in 1840 all garrisons hoisted his blue flag and forgot about the triclored until 1842.
Ralf Stelter, 23 Jan 2001

I am sorry to report, that after intensive research I failed to encounter the visual representation or even detailed description of the blue flag of Dr. Francia (1826).
Chrystian Kretowicz, 15 May 2002