Flag of Switzerland to the "Arma Christi" that were especially venerated in the three forest cantons, and which they were allegedly allowed to display on the formerly uniformly red battle flag from 1289 by king Rudolph I of Habsburg at the occasion of a campaign to Besançon. Use of a white cross as a mark of identification of the combined troops of the Old Swiss Confederacy is first attested in the Battle of Laupen (1339), where it was sewn on combatants' clothing as two stripes of textile, contrasting with the red St. George's cross of Habsburg Austria, and with the St. Andrew's cross
Flag of the Sakha Republic Flag of the Sakha Republic The flag of the Sakha Republic (, "Sakha Öröspüübülüketin Bılaağa"; , "Flag Respubliki Sakha"), in the Russian Federation, is one of the official symbol of the Sakha Republic, alongside with the coat of arms and the national anthem of the Sakha Republic. The flag is a horizontal four striped flag. From top to bottom, the stripes are light blue (3/4 of the flag's width), white (1/16), red (1/16), and green (1/8). The flag was used officially as the flag of Sakha Republic since 14 October 1992. The light blue stripe is charged with a white