Flag of Myanmar
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The State Flag of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar is a horizontal rectangular tricolor flag of yellow, green, and red with a large white five-pointed star in the center. The current flag was adop
Specifications of the flag.
Flag of Myanmar flown on the Presidential Palace, Naypyidaw
Barack Obama addressing the Burmese public during a speech at the University of Yangon on 19 November 2012. The vertical version of the Union Flag was depicted on the wall behind.
British rule in Burma
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British colonial rule in Burma lasted from 1824 to 1948, from the successive three Anglo-Burmese Wars through the creation of Burma as a province of British India to the establishment of an independen
Flag of Myanmar
…kingdom (c. 1287–1552) Flag used as national flag of Burma under Konbaung Dynasty (c. 1752–1885) Flag of the United Kingdom used as the colonial flag of British Burma (1886 – 1942; 1945 – 4 January 1948) Colonial flag of British Burma (6 February 1939 – 30 March 1941; 1945 – 3 January 1948) Provisional colonial flag…
British naval forces entering the harbour of Rangoon in May 1824
Photograph of the arrival of British forces in Mandalay on 28 November 1885 at the end of the Third Anglo-Burmese War.
In this rendering, British officers take King Thibaw onto a steamship en route to exile in India. He would never see Burma again.
"Proclamation" of the annexation of Burma into the British Empire in English and Burmese, published in Mandalay on 4 January 1886