Colours?

lenin · Post by **lenin** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 11:28 pm

Hi,
In my seemingly relentless search for information about the participants of 'Sedgemoor', could anyone supply with any of the following;

Coat Colours/Standards
The Horse Guards
Lord Greys Horse

Thanks, Andy

Post by **barr7430** » Wed Jun 08, 2005 7:23 am

Andy,
the `Horse Guards'(Now the Lifeguards of the Household Cavalry) were I believe in Red Coats probably faced Blue.

Lord Grey's would I suspect not have been uniformed. They may well have contained some men with Militia coats and officers with foreign service regimentals but largely they would have been recruited locally. Farmboys?, squires and grooms?, maybe some militia. They probably wore a mix of civilian clothes, old ECW vintage equipment and the like.
Monmouth came to England with less than 100 men and arms for around 1,000. These included some coats but not enough to furnish an army of nearyl 4,000. I think licence is in order!

B