"von Knyphausen Musketeers or Fusiliers?" Topic
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| Stosstruppen | 29 Apr 2008 6:43 a.m. PST |
What type of Regt von Knyphausen? Mollo has them as Musketeers, and I have seen them on the web as Fusiliers. Does anyone know? |
 John the OFM  | 29 Apr 2008 6:48 a.m. PST |
Fusiliers, black facings. |
| Redhazel2 | 29 Apr 2008 7:43 a.m. PST |
Mollo shows the correct officer for the Fusilier Regiment von Knyphausen with black facings & hat. The mistake about it being a musketeer regiment comes from 1784 when the Musketeer von Donop Regiment took the name Knyphausen.
The incorrect 1784 watercolors were published with S.Smith's Battle of Trenton. |
| Erbprinz | 29 Apr 2008 7:52 a.m. PST |
tons of info at Kronoskaf.com, but the quick answer is fusiliers for AWI. They were at Trenton I believe.
'Erb |
| John the OFM | 29 Apr 2008 8:15 a.m. PST |
Mollo is wrong in identifying Knyphausen as a musketeer regiment. It was a fusilier regiment.
However, the officers of a fusilier regiment would not wear a fusilier cap, but the tricorne.
Thus, the picture is correct, but the caption is not. Two wrongs make a right in this case.  |
| RNSulentic | 29 Apr 2008 12:04 p.m. PST |
And Redhazel2 for the catch! (and John for the uniform.) Not a lot of people actually know that, and others have made the same mistake--Ulendorf did as well in his book of Baurmeister's journal. |
| Stosstruppen | 29 Apr 2008 5:57 p.m. PST |
Thanks guys that clears it up for me. My musketeer figures are now the Lieb regt, I'll buy some fusiliers fot Knyphausen. |
| Erbprinz | 30 Apr 2008 8:35 p.m. PST |
Ah, but WHICH lieb regiment are they….
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