Ft. Macintosh Campus, Laredo Community College - Laredo, TX USA - Flags of the World on Waymarking.com

Along Washington Street, on the west side of the railroad tracks where washington turns into Hudson Road at the old US Army's Fort MacIntosh (now preserved and reused as a campus for Laredo Community College), a row of flagpoles fly the flags of the SEVEN countries that exercised sovereignty over part of Texas and states in Northern Mexico for 10 months in 1840.

The area claimed by the Republic was mostly along the northern frontier of Mexican states, with a large swath of the republic ofnTexas across the Rio Grande from those Mexican states. The revolutionaries met at Laredo, on January 17, 1840, declared independence from Mexico and claimed for its territory the areas of Tamaulipas and Coahuila (in Mexico) to the south, then all lands north across the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo to the Nueces and Medina rivers (in the Republic of Texas), and extending west to encompass the Mexican states of Nuevo León, Zacatecas, Durango, Chihuahua, and New Mexico.

The rebellion which had flared in Laredo in January 1840 was put down in Mexico in Nov 1840, after the Battle of Camargo.

Those flags are, in rough chronological order:

The United States of America (1845-1861; 1865-present)
The Confederate States of America (1861-1865)
The Republic of the Rio Grande (17 Jan 1840-6 Nov 1840)
The Republic of Texas (1836-Jan 1840; Nov 1840-1845)
The Republic of Mexico (1821-1836)
The Bourbon Kings of France (1685-1690)
The Bourbon Kings of Spain (1519-1685; 1690-1821)

In my photo, the flag of the Republic of the Rio Grande is the third flag, after the US and Republic of Texas flags, and before the Confederate States of America flag. It is made of three parts -- two horizontal bars, one white over one black, extending to the right from a vertical field of red with three gold stars arranged in a vertical line in the red field.

For more on the Republic of the Rio Grande see here: (visit link)

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The Republic of the Rio Grande, while short-lived, had its capital at Laredo. That capital building still stands in San Agustin Plaza downtown.

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