References to infantry wearing cavalry armour in Ireland during assaults suggests some units may still have at least carried some armour but the nationality is not clear.
Intriguing. Do you have a link on that or a reference? Thanks.
This is one of those "what-if" battles as the Jacobites felt they were winning until the Marquis de St.Ruth was decapitated by a cannon ball. Another problem was he didn't leave any infantry in the reserve so it fell to Galmoye's horse to cover the retreat.
I think in the 18th century, the early 17th century practice of non-officers wearing sashes was dying out, in part because of the growth of uniforms as a distinguishing feature on the battlefield. In the 18th century, sashes were something more associated with officers rather than the rank and file....
The Swedish tactic at the Battle of Lund in 1676 was to charge with pistol in hand and fire when they could see “the whites of the enemy’s eyes.” The sword was then drawn in the melee. This was specifically referred to as “in the French manner.” Yes but the date when the Carolean reforms were intro...
Puysegur, a soldier under Turenne, claimed that under Turenne, the use of the pistol by the French cavalry had ended (Turenne died in 1675). But on the other hand, in 1691 the Royal Carbiniers were raised, suggesting to some that firearm use by cavalry might have been reintroduced to some degree. To...
Okay but you do have any information on trends in how generals and their bodyguards dressed in different countries, colour-wise? I get the impression that in France it might have sometimes been redcoats (from painting of Battle of Fleurus 1695] where the Duke of Luxembourg is wearing a redcoat), or ...
Very nice. May I make a minor suggestion? I notice from the blog you linked to that many of the hats from before the 1700s are white/grey. So maybe make the hats that colour? I think it wasnt until around 1695 that some regiments had black hats in the Iberian regiments. Also you represented the cut ...
Is there any real evidence of generals wearing uniforms in the late 17th century, and the War of the Grand Alliance in particular? I know there are a lot of portraits of generals wearing armour typical of early to mid century cuirassiers. But I'm wondering was this how they dressed on the battlefiel...
Is there any evidence for drummers and officers uniforms? I know there's an artillery officer earlier in the thread but I mean other than that? Thanks in advance.
Nice website thanks. I used to have the ebook called "Army of the Duchy of Savoy" but I deleted it by mistake. The plates on there mostly line up with the ebook, although the uniforms in the ebook I had were from 1670 onwards and some in your website are earlier. On the ebook, the Saluzzo regt had f...
Correction: I've had another look at the ebook and it seems it was the officers of the Swiss in Milanese service (Milan was part of the Spanish empire) that wore blue coats with white plume. The source was the Papal Nuncio in Turin in 1696. Given that the ebook also shows the Grison regiment wearing...
In 1689 the other 5 infantry regiments wore a grey coat with two having blue and three having red facings. In 1690 one of the blue faced units is listed as having green facings. Two of the units were described as wearing white coats and the others as grey. It is probable that the white coats were a...
Well this website by Hans Hogman has a list of what it says are dates when the standard uniform was introduced in each regiment (eg 1691 for the Upplands regiment). Regarding the question of whether Scanian war uniforms might still have been in use. Well there was a uniform regulation in 1683 (this ...