Last modified: 2005-04-23 by juan manuel gabino villascán
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Note by the editor:
Since most of the information and images comes from
Greetings from the Republic of Sonora, I thank Editor Eugene George,
for allowing us to use the information and images in FOTW.
I am the creator of the flags "Naval and Aircraft Ensign of the Republic of Sonora"
and "Administrative division of the Republic of Sonora and Lower California".
The flags found on
Greetings from the Republic of Sonora are most definitely fictional and
ahistorical and were created as an exercise in speculative history and vexillology.
I want to be perfectly clear here, they are not actual examples of any extant flags
from Walker's filibustering expeditions in Mexico.
While I am flattered that derivative versions of my work have been included in
your fine database I do not wish to add any confusion to researchers
or historians.
Eugene George, April 16, 2005.
I personally assume those were never come into effect, even I think
they never existed. Note, that the supposed flag for the Republic of
Sonora has a triband: blue-white-blue with stars in red. Or, on the
other hand, it is about a "mini-state", "imaginary-nation" or "micronation".
Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, Jan. 29, 2002
All the content on
Greetings from the Republic of Sonora is fake, as
it's a fictivous state of a game. So maybe the flags are fictious, too.
Remark: William Walker's lifeline is correct in the beginning, but is
changed to phantasy in the end. "1894 William Walker dies at age 70." -
No, Walker died in 1860 in Nicaragua, where he was shot.
As you write on your page, William Walker gave up to General Burton and
was taken to San Francisco.
He returned to Central America, where he intervened in the Nicaraguan
war. The whole site is only fiction, and so the flags shown here are too.
Ralf Stelter, January 13, 2005.
Note by the editor:
The following images are "re-gifs" of those in:
Greetings from the Republic of Sonora.
by Eugene George,
re-gif by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, January 13, 2005.
Note by the editor:
The following images are "re-gifs" of those in:
Greetings from the Republic of Sonora.
by Eugene George,
re-gif by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, January 13, 2005.
Note by the editor:
The following images are "re-gifs" of those in:
Greetings from the Republic of Sonora.
by Eugene George,
re-gif by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, May 30, 2001.
by Eugene George,
re-gif by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, May 30, 2001.