A fan recently told me that he found a very magical phenomenon
How are the flags of the three countries in northern South America: Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela so similar?
Ecuador
Venezuela
Colombia
I looked at it: Well, if the flag on the flag of the Eritrea and the Venezuelan flag is removed, then the two national flags are different in color, except for the different color numbers.
Kindness.. Especially in the two countries, it is simply a mold carved out.
I thought that this topic could be solved in three words and two words,
But when I finished rummaging through the information, I found that
Behind the original three similar flags, there is also a story that can be sung and wept.
There are many interesting things about science, and listen to the brother ball.
Let's take a closer look at the three flags.
They are all composed of red, yellow and blue stripes.
The difference is that in the flags of The Two Countries,
Ecuador
Colombia
The width of the yellow stripes accounts for 50%, and the red and blue stripes are 25% each.
Venezuela divides the flag equally in three colors.
The three countries also have similar interpretations of colors
Yellow is mostly related to agriculture and wealth.
Blue represents the sky and the ocean.
Red, and our five-star red flag has about the same meaning,
It was all the blood shed by the martyrs during the War of Independence.
In addition, the flag of Venezuela used to have seven stars,
That represents the seven states of the country at the time of its founding,
That emblem of Ecuador is their coat of arms!
Well, after a brief understanding, we can't help but think about a question:
Is there any necessary connection between them?
In fact, this secret lies in the three colors of red, yellow and blue.
In the art of painting, they are three primary colors,
In the junior high school textbooks, it is mentioned that Newton used a prism in 1666.
An experiment that decomposes the white light of the sun into red-orange-yellow-green-blue-purple.
But this is knowledge in the field of optics, or it is an objective law.
Extending objective laws to the relatively subjective realm of art was a German.
There was even a book called Color Theory.
Of course, the German is also a bit famous.
Many of his poems have been adapted into music by musicians such as Mozart, Beethoven, and Liszt!
The Troubles of Young Werther and Faust are also from his pen.
He was Johann Wolfgang von Goethe!
In the winter of 1785, at a gathering among the nobles,
Goethe met a man from South America who was about his age.
After the two men pushed the cups until late at night, the man told Goethe:
A few years ago, I was on the North American continent.
He also said how great the war he fought in was.
In the future, if you meet George Washington (the first president of the United States) and Thomas Jefferson (the third president of the United States) and mention his miranda name, it will be good.
After traveling to Europe, he will personally liberate his hometown of Venezuela.
Although these words sound a bit like drunken gibberish,
But the dudes really aren't lying.
Because of the war he fought in, today we call it the American War of Independence.
American Revolutionary War
He did have some friendship with those two presidents.
Maybe infected by the enthusiasm of this brother,
Goethe sold him his theory of color through wine.
The hot land of the hometown must be endowed with the purest and unpolluted colors.
Yellow represents warmth and nobility,
Blue is a combination of excitement and quiet,
Red, on the other hand, is a sublimation of yellow and blue.
We don't know what Goethe was preaching at the time.
Or the bragging X behavior after a little drink,
But what we can know is that the aspiring young man named Miranda was after hearing it
Firmly believe.
How good is Miranda, who was "fooled" by the great writer Goethe?
Miranda
As we said earlier, Miranda is a South American.
Can meet Goethe in Germany (Prussia),
It was because he was traveling through Europe at this time.
But when he came to France in 1791,
But here broke out the French Revolution, which had a great impact on future generations!
For ordinary people, this kind of time is able to moisten and run,
But for Miranda, who loves to toss and turn, this is a great opportunity.
So he decided to make France his last stop in Europe.
In 1791, Miranda actively participated in the French Revolution as a field marshal. The following year, he served as a general in the French Revolutionary Army, participating in the Battle of Valmi between France and Austria (the Habsburgs).
Although he was later imprisoned twice, he was able to personally participate in the French Revolution.
And survived, which is quite lucky.
Especially for someone like Miranda who wants to liberate her hometown,
This is a huge "wealth".
Why wealth?
Because at this time, let alone Miranda's hometown of Venezuela,
Even the whole of South America was a Spanish colony.
However, at this point in time in the late 18th and early 19th centuries,
Spain, the generation of the Empire that never sets, has come to the end of the empire, and in its place, it is naturally a big boo!
But the so-called skinny camel is bigger than the skinny horse,
Wanting to shake the Spanish "remnants" entrenched on the South American continent,
Miranda alone will certainly not be able to do it.
What to do? In line with the principle that the enemy of the enemy is a friend,
Miranda began to seek help from Spain's enemies such as Russia, the United States, France, and Great Britain.
So miranda traveled to European countries before, not everywhere to punch in and take pictures, but to do the right thing. Even participating in the French Revolution and the American War of Independence was to gain the support of the United States and France.
But after the French revolution there was a bit of internal turmoil, and Russia was too far away,
Then the only answer is to boo.
However, the Western powers of that era were not great benevolent people.
After telling the British about his military plan,
The British felt: If we ourselves can drive Spain out of South America,
Thus opening up the South American market on a physical level (guns).
When the time comes, you Venezuela will have to give us an offering,
Why should I cooperate with you? Miranda, who was too frightened to say anything, said:
There is no grandfather here, there is a place to keep the grandfather.
There is no grandfather left everywhere, and there is still a way back.
Didn't Miranda still know two U.S. presidents?
Grandpa went back to the place where he had fought.
However, after communicating with then-President Thomas Jefferson, it was found that:
Thomas Jefferson
Americans seem to be more concerned about how they expand their territory.
It seems that if you want to liberate your hometown, you can only rely on yourself.
In 1806, miranda, who was quite wealthy,
He bought weapons and 200 soldiers, and bought two ships in Haiti, and his first plan to liberate his homeland began. At the same time, of course, was the first flag of Venezuela.
However, with only 200 troops, the results are predictable.
Although he later brought in nearby British troops stationed on the british islands of Grenada, Trinidad, and Barbados, they did not exceed three hundred at a time.
After many failures, Miranda returned to London, taking refuge while looking for her next chance. Don't say, the opportunity will come soon.
At this time, a message came from the Spanish mainland: Napoleon had invaded Spain!
Upon learning of this, Venezuela quickly sent a young man who, like Miranda, was determined to liberate Venezuela to negotiate with the British.
It was hoped that at the time of independence, Britain would give some military assistance.
After Miranda and the young man met, the two hit it off.
They all feel that the opportunity must not be lost, and the loss will not come again.
And so it goes: on July 5, 1811, after the two returned home,
The First Republic of Venezuela is formally established.
Naturally, the red, yellow and blue flag became the flag of the Republic.
However, the good times did not last long, although the Spaniards were temporarily driven away,
But under the long period of colonization,
Not to mention Venezuela, even the entire Latin American region has a very uneven distribution of interests,
What warlords, landlords, politicians, and other classes have their own small calculations,
Coupled with the second year of the founding of the republic, there was another major earthquake in Venezuela,
Moreover, the aftershocks spread throughout the country, causing a large number of deaths and damage to infrastructure, and the roof dew was raining overnight, and the Spaniards on the other side came back.
Under multiple pressures, the nascent First Republic of Venezuela died without being able to gather multiple forces.
Miranda, without informing anyone and organization,
He signed his name on the surrender.
But the young man who returned from England with him,
After hearing of Miranda's surrender, she was extremely angry,
She felt that miranda was betraying her country by betraying her army.
The young men arrested Miranda and handed her over to the Spanish army.
Miranda knew that if she was actually escorted back to Spain,
That will be a dead end.
For the last three years of his life, he was held in a prison outside the Venezuelan capital, Caracas. In 1816, Miranda died of illness in prison.
His body was buried in a mass grave, which left no one able to identify his body.
Although today Venezuela built a tomb for Miranda in the National Pantheon, the tomb is empty.
Miranda, who had spent half her life fighting for the liberation of Venezuela, ended up with such a tragic ending,
It's a shame.
Seeing this you might be thinking:
The young man was so hateful that he ruined Miranda's life's efforts.
In fact, instead of destroying it, he exceeded Miranda's ideals.
Even today, in 2022,
The young man's name remains a household name throughout South America.
There is even a very domineering nickname: Liberator!
The full name of this icon of the entire Latin American nation and culture is exactly:
Simon Bolívar!
What earth-shattering things would a man who could be called a "liberator" do? What does this have to do with the flag?
It's actually quite simple: after Miranda went to prison,
Bolívar not only liberated Venezuela,
Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, Panama, and New Granada were liberated in one fell swoop.
It even merged Venezuela, Ecuador, Colombia and Pakistan into Gran Colombia.
So how did he do it?
Earlier we talked about Miranda's experience of liberating her homeland,
Bolívar felt: Whether it was Miranda or his own failure,
It's all because of the weakness of the force.
It is certainly not enough to count on these external forces of Britain and France.
But no matter how attractive and rich you are, you can pull the team, that is only Venezuela's own strength. And this power is certainly not comparable to the Spaniards.
Therefore, what he wants to do is not to pull two or three hundred people by enthusiasm to get a vote, but to unite all the forces that can be united in Latin America.
That's where there is hope.
So Bolívar, who was now penniless and deported by the Spaniards, set his first target on grenada, a small island to the northeast.
Grenada, though also controlled by the Spaniards,
But once the Spanish troops came here, they were relatively weak.
Second, there are still revolutionary forces on the island.
Although the island is not large, there are more than eight shallow kings in the water, and there are big brothers everywhere.
It has also split into multiple forces.
The first thing Bolívar has to do is to integrate multiple forces.
So how to integrate it? Four words: abandon the pen.
After figuring out the local situation, Bolívar began to write articles!
Spreading the idea that he wanted to liberate the whole of Latin America,
At the same time, it actively mingles with the local elite.
Most importantly: his ideas were supported by the oppressed people at the bottom. In this way, the revolutionary contingent from the beginning of a few people,
Soon it grew to two hundred.
Unlike Miranda's two hundred men, this time bolivar's enemies were only five hundred.
After a fierce battle, the garrisoned Spanish troops left a large amount of supplies and fled. Although the scale of this battle is small,
But it gave the locals great confidence.
Next, the team became larger and larger, and the materials became more and more abundant,
It took Bolívar only two weeks to basically liberate Grenada.
With a crushing victory, Bolívar felt:
It's time to go back to your home country. He did the same!
After returning to Venezuela, the royalist army of Spain,
For a time it was indeed difficult to withstand the offensive of the Bolivarian army,
Soon lost. Even Bolívar laid down the capital Caracas in one fell swoop.
After the victory, Bolívar declared: the establishment of the Second Republic of Venezuela!
And it was during this period that the title of "Liberator" was acquired.
However, the fate of the Second Republic was very similar to that of the First Republic.
Since at this time the new king of Spain came to the throne,
This gave the local royalists in Venezuela great confidence,
In addition, although the republic was established, Bolívar at this time did not approve of the abolition of slavery.
So, under the attack of the slaves and the royalists,
Bolívar was losing.
The Second Republic existed for only a year and died again.
Despite the defeat, Bolívar felt:
You can go back to the island of Grenada and make a comeback.
After all, there were a large number of teammates who had fought with him.
However, Grenada had long since been reoccupied by the resurgent Spaniards. No way, Bolívar had to go into exile in Jamaica in the Caribbean. It is the hometown of today's Olympic 100m champion Bolt.
Here he reflects again on the reasons for the failure of the Second Republic:
Last time he felt that he should unite all the forces around him,
This time, he further improved the plan.
That is, in South America, it is necessary to establish a regional power like Spain, and it is also necessary to reduce the endless internal friction between the various peoples.
However, what should be done to implement it?
At present, there is only one way:
That is to promise more benefits to the forces of all sides.
In this way, everyone can unite for a goal.
So this time, with an ideological program and with the strong support of the President of Haiti, Bolívar,
Fight venezuela again. Of course, the Haitian president is not in vain:
The condition was the emancipation of slaves in South America.
However, the result of this battle? Kindness....
The defeated "Liberators" discovered:
The ideological program is there, and the military program does not seem to be quite right.
Every previous episode of starvation has a common reason:
That is, he targeted the big cities.
The power of the countryside has not been fully mobilized.
Six months later, Bolívar marched to the Venezuelan countryside with a military program of rural encirclement of the cities.
It turns out: his path is wide!
As a result of the many battles, the Spaniards laid heavy troops in the big cities of Venezuela, and every time Bolívar went to a village, he was warmly welcomed by the locals! And the source of soldiers is also increasing!
And so it was: Bolívar formed a tug-of-war with the Spanish colonial army.
But it is not always a way to do this.
At this moment he thought of the famous general named Hannibal,
After leading an army over the Alps,
The story of the divine soldier descending into the heart of the Roman Empire.
Thus, Bolívar felt:
Since Venezuela has been unable to conquer for a long time, and the enemy is heavily guarded,
It's not as good as we did, crossing the Andes Mountains, and then taking the colombian capital next door, Bogo, to surprise the opponent!
It turns out that sometimes doing the opposite can be rewarding.
Bolívar's divine descent hit the local Spanish colonial army
Defeat the army!
Soon, the whole territory of Colombia was completely liberated from Spain!
Naturally, Bolívar also became Colombia's first president.
After having a stable base,
Bolívar, in conjunction with his friends in Venezuela,
Finally, he completely liberated his motherland, Venezuela.
It can be said that at this time, the Spanish colonial system in South America basically existed in name only.
So Bolívar took advantage of the victory and liberated Peru and Bolivia.
In 1819, Gran Colombia was established by the two regimes of Colombia and Venezuela.
By 1825, the territory of Gran Colombia had expanded to that of
The entire northern region of South America.
It contains the entire territory of today's four countries of Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador and Pakistan (Panama), and even parts of Peru and Brazil.
And the flag is like this!
Although Bolívar indirectly killed Miranda, the first revolutionary region,
But he fulfilled Miranda's ambitions.
However, although the battle is over, the problem is also coming.
Later Bolívar although the successive victories,
But behind the winning streak there is a huge hidden danger:
That is, this victory is based on expansion.
As long as the territory is expanding and the military is victorious,
Then the contradictions within Gran Colombia can be temporarily covered up.
But if this battle is not fought, or if there is a little difficulty,
Internal contradictions will immediately appear.
Bolívar, who was president of Gran Colombia, Peru and Bolivia at this time, believed that power should be centralized.
Spending the already scarce resources of the regions of South America where they are used,
But this idea weakens the interests of local tycoons and chaebols.
Therefore, on the question of the future route, everyone is fighting dead and alive.
And Bolívar is helpless in the face of this situation.
As his native Venezuela and Ecuador withdrew from Gran Colombia and declared independence, Bolívar was disheartened.
On December 17, 1830, Bolívar died of tuberculosis,
He died on December 31, 2012 at the age of 4
With Bolivar's departure, Gran Colombia also fell apart.
Although Greater Columbia no longer exists,
However, Venezuela, Eritrea and Colombia still use the flag of Gran Colombia.
Maybe some friends after reading this story,
There will be a feeling:
Whether it's Miranda or Bolívar, who has the title of Liberator,
None of them are ever victorious generals, and they don't seem to be very good.
But let's think about it carefully:
Whether it is rice or glass, or the revolutionary martyrs of our country,
The road for all of them was not always smooth.
On the contrary, it is still unusually rugged and unusually bumpy.
And no matter how you negate Miranda and Bolívar,
They all contributed greatly to the anti-colonial war of the peoples of South America.
Or to put it mildly: it is not an exaggeration to call Bolívar the Liberator and Miranda the Pioneer of Anticolonism.
By the way, both of them came from very rich families.
Even the bolivarian family's property ranks high throughout South America.
If they do not go anti-colonial, they can rely on the wealth of the family
It was quite moist.
But both Bolívar and Miranda chose the hardest path!
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By the way, in today's video we mentioned:
Bolívar established Gran Colombia in northern South America,
In fact, in the southern regions of South America during the same period,
There is also a "God of War".
However, unlike Bolívar, who is also a president,
The god of war chose to retreat from the rapids.
If you are interested,
After a thousand likes, I will talk to you about this god of war!
Well, I'm a brother ball, we'll see you next time!