Cockade

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A woman fastening a red-and-white cockade to a Polish insurgent's square-shaped rogatywka cap during the January Uprising of 1863–64
Charles Edward Stuart wearing a hat with a white (Jacobite) cockade
John of Austria wearing as a brassard the red cockade of the Spanish armies

A cockade is a knot of ribbons, or other circular- or oval-shaped symbol of distinctive colours which is usually worn on a hat or cap.

The word cockade derives from the French cocarde, from Old French coquarde, feminine of coquard (vain, arrogant), from coc (cock), of imitative origin. The earliest documented use was in 1709.[1][2]

Eighteenth century

General André Masséna of the French Revolutionary Army wearing a bicorne with a tricolor cockade
kokárda
Hungarian kokárda, is worn on the 15th of March to commemorate the 1848 Revolution and its ideals. It was originally worn by the Youth of March.

In the 18th and 19th centuries, coloured cockades were used in Europe to show the allegiance of their wearers to some political faction, or to show their rank or to indicate a servant's livery.[3][4] Because individual armies might wear a variety of differing regimental uniforms, cockades were used as an effective and economical means of national identification.[5]

A cockade was pinned on the side of a man's

cocked hat
, or on his lapel. Women could also wear it on their hat or in their hair.

In pre-revolutionary France, the cockade of the Bourbon dynasty was all white.[6][7][8] In the Kingdom of Great Britain supporters of a Jacobite restoration wore white cockades, while the recently established Hanoverian monarchy used a black cockade.[9][10][11][12] The Hanoverians also accorded the right to all German nobility to wear the black cockade in the United Kingdom.

During the 1780 Gordon Riots in London, the blue cockade became a symbol of anti-government feelings and was worn by most of the rioters.[13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20]

During the American Revolution, the Continental Army initially wore cockades of various colors as an ad hoc form of rank insignia, as General George Washington wrote:

As the Continental Army has unfortunately no uniforms, and consequently many inconveniences must arise from not being able to distinguish the commissioned officers from the privates, it is desired that some badge of distinction be immediately provided; for instance that the field officers may have red or pink colored cockades in their hats, the captains yellow or buff, and the

subalterns green.[21][22]

Before long however, the Continental Army reverted to wearing the black cockade they inherited from the British. Later, when

Ancien Régime onto their old black cockade; the French reciprocally pinned the black cockade onto their white cockade, as a mark of the French-American alliance. The black-and-white cockade thus became known as the "Union Cockade".[23][24][25][26][27]

In the Storming of the Bastille, Camille Desmoulins initially encouraged the revolutionary crowd to wear green. This colour was later rejected as it was associated with the Count of Artois. Instead, revolutionaries would wear cockades with the traditional colours of the arms of Paris: red and blue. Later, the Bourbon white was added to this cockade, thus producing the original cockade of France.[26] Later, distinctive colours and styles of cockade would indicate the wearer's faction; although the meanings of the various styles were not entirely consistent, and they varied somewhat by region and period.

European military

John VI of Portugal wearing the blue-and-red cockade of Portugal on a military cocked hat
A metal cockade on the swivel of a Pickelhaube helmet.

From the 15th century, various

cocked hats and shakoes. Coloured metal cockades were worn at the right side of helmets; while small button-type cockades were worn at the front of kepis and peaked caps.[30][31] In addition to the significance of these symbols in denoting loyalty to a particular monarch, the coloured cockade served to provide a common and economical field sign at a time when the colours of uniform coats might vary widely between regiments in a single army.[32]

During the

St. George pinned on the front of their shakos.[33]

The Second German Empire (1870–1918) used two cockades on each army headgear: one (black-white-red) for the empire; the other for one of the monarchies the empire was composed of, which had used their own colors long before. The only exceptions were the Kingdoms of Bavaria and Württemberg, having preserved the right to keep their own armed forces which were not integrated in the Imperial Army. Their only cockades were either white-blue-white (Bavaria) or black-red-black (Württemberg).[34][3][35]

The Weimar Republic (1919–1933) removed these, as they might promote separatism which would lead to the dissolution of the German nation-state into regional countries again.[36] When the

city states
of Hamburg, Bremen and Lübeck (white and red).

France began the first

French navy bearing a black anchor within the French cockade.[38]

1956 revolution. Because of this, Hungarians traditionally wear cockades on 15 March.[39][40]

Confederate States

Echoing their use when Americans rebelled against Britain, cockades – usually made with blue ribbons and worn on clothing or hats – were widespread tokens of

Southern support for secession preceding the American Civil War of 1861–1865.[41]

List of national cockades

Cockade on the caps of certified persons serving in the pilot service of Russia, 1913.
See also: Military aircraft insignia

Below is a list of national cockades (colors listed from center to ring):[42][43]

Country
and date 		Description Image
 Albania red-black-red
 Argentina sky blue-white-sky blue
 Armenia orange-blue-red
 Austria
before 1918 		black-gold
 Austria
since 1918 		red-white-red
 Azerbaijan green-red-light blue
 Belgium black-yellow-red
Bolivia
(1825–1826) 		green-red-green (with a white 5 pointed star in the center)
Bolivia
(1826–1851) 		green-red-yellow
 Bolivia green-yellow-red
 Brazil blue-yellow-green
 Bulgaria red-green-white
 Chile blue-white-red (with a white 5 pointed star in the blue portion)
 Colombia yellow-blue-red
 Croatia red-white-blue
 Czechoslovakia
(1920–1993) 		blue-red-white
 Czech Republic blue-red-white
 Denmark
(early 19th century) 		black
 Denmark red-white-red
 Ecuador red-blue-yellow
 Egypt
(1922–1953) 		green-white-green
 Egypt black-white-red
 Estonia white-black-blue
 Ethiopia
(until 1936) 		green-yellow-red
 Ethiopia red-yellow-green
 Finland white-blue-white
 France
(1794–1814, 1815 and current since 1830) 		blue-white-red
 France
(before 1794, 1814–1815 and 1815–1830) 		white
 Gabon green-yellow-light blue
 Georgia
(1990–2004) 		black-white-wine red
 German Confederation
(1848–1871) 		gold-red-black
 German Empire (1871–1918)
 Weimar Germany (1918–1933)
 Nazi Germany (1933–1945) 		red-white-black
 East Germany
(1956–1959) 		black-red-gold
 Germany black-red-gold
 Ghana green-yellow-red
 Greece
(1822) 		white-blue-white
 Greece
(1833) 		blue-white
 Greece blue-white
 Hungary green-white-red
 Iceland blue-white-red-white-blue
 India green-white-saffron
 Iran red-white-green
 Ireland
(until 1922) 		green or sky blue
 Ireland
(since 1922) 		green-white-orange
 Italy
(1861–1948) 		savoy blue
 Italy
(since 1948) 		green-white-red
 Japan red-white
 Kenya green-white-red-white-black
 Latvia carmine-white-carmine
 Lithuania red-green-yellow
 Mexico green-white-red
 Monaco white-red-white
 Netherlands orange
 Nigeria green-white-green
 Norway red-white-blue-white
 Pakistan white-green-yellow
 Paraguay blue-white-red
Peru Peru red-white-red
Philippines Philippines
(1898–1901) 		red-blue-silver
 Poland red-white
Portugal Portugal
(1797–1820 and 1823–1830) 		blue-red
Portugal Portugal
(1821–1823 and 1830–1910) 		blue-white
 Portugal green-red
 Romania blue-yellow-red
Russia Russia
(until 1917) 		black-orange-black-orange-white
 Russia black-orange-black-orange
 San Marino white-blue
 Serbia red-blue-white
Seychelles

(1978–1996) 		green-white-red
 Sierra Leone light blue-white-green
 Slovenia red-blue-white
 Spain
(until 1843 and 1844–1871) 		red
 Spain
(1843–1844 and current since 1871) 		red-yellow-red
 Sweden
(military) 		yellow
 Sweden
(civilian) 		blue-yellow
 Thailand red-white-blue-white-red
South Africa Transvaal green-red-white-blue
 Turkey red-white-red
 Ukraine light blue-yellow
 United Kingdom white (Stuart dynasty), black (Hanoverian dynasty), red-white-blue
 
War of Independence
) 		black-white-black
 United States
(19th century) 		blue with an eagle in the centre
 United States white-blue-red
Uruguay Uruguay
(1828–1916) 		sky blue
Uruguay Uruguay
(civilian) 		blue-white-blue-white-blue-white-blue-white
Uruguay Uruguay
(military) 		blue-white-blue with a red diagonal line
Uruguay Uruguay
(police) 		red-white-blue
 Venezuela red-blue-yellow
 Yugoslavia blue-white-red

Component states of the German Empire (1871–1918)

Cockades of the German Empire

The German Empire had, besides the national cockade, also cockades for several of its states,[44] seen in the following table:

State Description
Anhalt green
Baden yellow-red-yellow
Bavaria white-sky blue-white
Brunswick blue-yellow-blue
Hanseatic cities (Bremen, Hamburg, Lübeck) white with a red cross
Hesse white-red-white-red-white
Lippe yellow-red-yellow
Mecklenburg-Schwerin and -Streliz red-yellow-blue
Oldenburg blue-red-blue
Prussia black-white-black
Reuss-Gera and -Greiz black-red-yellow
Saxe-Altenburg, -Coburg and Gotha and -Meiningen green-white-green
Saxe-Weimar black-yellow-green
Saxony white-green-white
Schaumburg-Lippe blue-red-white
Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt blue-white-blue
Schwarzburg-Sonderhausen white-blue-white
Waldeck black-red-yellow
Württemberg black-red-black

See also

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