What is Blue Ensign?
{{Infobox flag|Name=Blue Ensign|Article=|Nickname=|Image=Government Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg|Use=000010|Symbol={{FIAV|000010}} {{FIAV|normal}}|Proportion=1:2|Adoption=British Government|Design=[[Blue]] with the [[Union Jack|Union]] occupying one quarter of the field and placed in the [[Canton (flag)|canton]].|Type=National}}The '''Blue Ensign''' is a [[flag]], one of several British ensigns, used by certain organizations territories associated or formerly associated with the United kingdom, it is used either plain or defaced with a [[Heraldic badge|badge]] or other [[emblem]]. The [[Acts of Union 1707]] united [[England]] and [[Wales]] with [[Scotland]] in the [[Kingdom of Great Britain]], in the result of producing a new Blue Ensign with the new Union Flag in the canton. With the [[Act of Union 1800]], [[Kingdom of Ireland| Ireland]] became a part of the new [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland]], and [[Saint Patrick's Flag|St Patrick's Cross]] was incorporated into the Union Flag and, accordingly, into the cantons of all British ensigns from 1 January 1801. == Ensigns == <gallery> File:Government Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg|{{FIAV|000010}} The modern Blue Ensign of the United Kingdom File:British-Blue-Ensign-1707.svg|{{FIAV|historical}} The British Blue Ensign (1707–1801) File:English Blue Ensign 1620.svg|{{FIAV|historical}} English Blue Ensign as it appeared in the seventeenth century </gallery>{{Commons category|Blue ensigns}}{{Stub}} [[Category:Flags of the United Kingdom]] [[Category:British Empire]]