>> Tomorrow I hope to do some of my two Saxon cavalry brigades.
I'm looking forward to seeing these. I do like the red and gold colour combination you have used on the infantry. Some really effective basing (the snow is particularly good ).
Thanks Wienand, I'd not heard of them before so I am sure you are right - either short-lived formations or a result of mis-identification. Of course, it doesn't help that the some Regiments were sometimes referred to by various different names further obscuring an already murky picture). Thanks agai...
In his book 'The Huguenot Soldiers of William of Orange', Matthew Glozier mentions the above two Dragoon Regiments (which, I assume, are named for their coat colours).
I don't suppose anyone has any further information about these two Regiments ?
Thank you - some really excellent uniform guides. I particularly like the Bavarian Leibregiment and will have to include at least a battalion of these.
Thank you for the reply. The archive diagram is very interesting indeed and I hope I can enlarge it sufficiently to read. I have also found this: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k875527k/f56.image From 'La Bataille de Malplaquet'. Very clear but unfortunately only covers the French Infantry. T...
I'm painting up a number of French & allied Regiments which form part of the Ramillies Order of Battle and have come across a brigade comprising the above two Regiments. I've also seen reference to them brigaded together at Malplaquet. I am now trying to work out who they are as I can find no other ...
Hi Wienand, Robert Hall confirms the Colonel is Ernst Detlof but I expect this is taken from the same source you mention below ('Het Staatsche Leger'). I have also checked his work on the two Mecklenburg states but this doesn't clarify the situation either. Different spellings don't help (Krassau / ...
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