The Single Star Flag
It was the Fourth of July. The United States Consulate in Chile was celebrating our Independence Day. Over the Consulate floated the Stars and Stripes, and with it was entwined, for the first time, a tri-coloured flag, red, white, and blue, with a single five-pointed silver star in its upper left hand corner.
It was the new Republican Flag of Chile.
Soon one saw the Patriots of Santiago on the streets, wearing red, white, and blue cockades.
And shortly after this the Single Star Flag was adopted as the Chilean national emblem.