Show First Peruvian Flag Is of Red White and Green Shortly after landing with his victorious vic vic- victorIous army In Paracas bay since then known as Independence bay the tho Liberator San Martin saw the incompatibility incompatibIlIty of ot the old Insignia of or Spain with the Independence of ot Peru am and thus on October 21 21 1820 1320 he Issued In Pisco a decree providing that pending the establishment of ot the Independent government the flag of or the country should be white and red divided by diagonal lines Into four tour triangular fields the upper and lower white anc and the lateral red In the center was a coat of ot arms formed by an oval crown of or laurel with a sun within rising from behind a range of mountains bor bor- bordered bordered bordered dered by a calm sea This was like like- likewise likewise wise the first coat of arms of or Peru The first Peruvian Peru flag states a writ writ- writer er en In the Washington Post Is the re re- result result result sult of ot a sublime conception In which were embodied the local traditions an Indomitable patriotism and a n lofty political po po- aspiration Red symbolized the blood of the patriots and white right and Justice The laurel crown was the military representation of ot triumph and glory The mountains symbolized the new Andean nation emerged from the tranquil waters of the Pacific the green of ot which expressed the hope of the Peruvians striving for a noble ideal The sun was the deity of the Incas awakening from a sleep of three centuries cen |