For the 1809 campaign, but looking at the smaller German allied armies (or better divisions) look for "With eagles to Glory" also by Gill. I find it still one of the best Napoleonic books ever. lso a lot about the Tyrolean revolt
Don't worry Dave, we will not ask any rules question. I hope you don't mind that we will sent every one at the show over to you who has questions about uniforms, tactics, organisation, literature etc about this period.
Belhomme (l'armee francaise en 1690) states that grenadiers of some some french regiments wore a kind of dragoon cap. Colour was a off-white (gris-blanc) sack (same as the coat it seems) and different (facing?) colour turban which sometimes later became leather/bearskin? ( en peau it is called) I ha...
Sorry, have to say I was wrong (have to read more carefully I think but my french is a little-understatement- rusty). Every batallion de campagne had 3 flags. Although in some regiments (les vieux, du Roi and du Dauphin) each company (except the grenadiers) had a flag only 3 were carried by each bat...
In "l'armee Francaise en 1690" by Belhomme it is stated, that each regiment had only 2 enseignes. This would mean that there were only two flags for each regiment. Does this means that if a regiment had 2 battalions there was ony one flag per battalion, or even if there were more battalions some had...
