| trailape | 12 Nov 2009 7:43 p.m. PST |
Hi Guys
I know some Italian Line Regiments served in the Peninsular but did any Italian Light Infantry Regiments or Croatian / Balkan Regiments serve there?
I just want some "Green" coated "French / Allied" troops to tangle with my Brits,…
Cheers
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| Whirlwind | 12 Nov 2009 11:21 p.m. PST |
Hi, The Italian 1st and 2nd Light Infantry served in Eastern Spain, buf I'm not sure if units from the 3rd and 4th did or not. Without checking, i'm thinking not. They didn't fight too much against the British though. IIRC, no Croats involved in Spain. The 3rd Etranger/Irish Legion did fight in Spain and they wore green coats as did, if memory serves, some Nassauers. Regards |
| French Wargame Holidays | 12 Nov 2009 11:25 p.m. PST |
Italian Units 1808-1813 2nd btn Gaurd Velites Line Infantry
2nd Line Regt
1st, 3rd and 4th btns
4th Line regt
all four btns
5th Regiment
1st and 2nd btns
6th regiment
1st, 2nd, 3rd btns
7th regiment
1st btn (some accounts have three) Legere Regiments
1st Legere
1st and 2nd btns (may of been three)
2nd legere
1st an 2nd btns (may of been three) Horse artillery
1 battery (company?) 4 pounders?
Foot Artillery
2 batterys (companys) 6 pounders? one Sapper company 3rd Napoleone Dragoons
1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th sqns 1st Royal Chassuers a cheval
1st, 2nd and 3rd sqns 2nd Prince Royal Chassuers a cheval
1st sqn hope that helps some btns came and went though so if you are doing a particular battle it will help the orbats cheers
matt |
| trailape | 12 Nov 2009 11:53 p.m. PST |
Hi Matt & Whirlwind
Thanks guys!
I was aware of the Irish, but wasn't to sure if I wanted to paint them up.
Cheers
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| baxterj | 13 Nov 2009 2:29 a.m. PST |
Also Regt de Prusse wore green and served in Spain john |
| Rudysnelson | 13 Nov 2009 10:51 a.m. PST |
I thought de prusse wore mid-Blue but I do not have my reference books with me. |
| Whirlwind | 13 Nov 2009 11:41 a.m. PST |
Links to the uniforms of 3rd and 4th Etranger are on this thread I think. Regards |
| andygamer | 13 Nov 2009 5:26 p.m. PST |
Just quickly looking in Haythornthwaite's Uniforms of the Peninsular Wars, the four btns of the Régt de Prusse are in "holly green" faced scarlet red with Prussian shakos. Later it changed to French light infantry dress of green faced red. (I thought they were blue, too, Rudy, but I think I had the picture in my mind's eye of the Hesse-Darmstadt troops in 1806-style Prussian uniforms from the same book.) There's also the Coburg-Saalfeld Btn shown at Gerona with green coats, orangish-yellow cuffs and collar with red turnbacks (no lapesl); brown blanket roll and breeches with below-the-knee black gaiters; French-style shako but with Austrian-style oak leaves field sign. (An officer is shown in a bicorne; with long-tailed coat; and light blue pants. And, BTW, the plate description for the green-clad Irish Regt doesn't mention the Croatians at all. |
| Cacadores | 13 Nov 2009 8:08 p.m. PST |
Other Italian Peninsular Units: Anglo-Italian Levy / Italian Legion A 2 battalion unit formed form Italian prisoners in England. Austrians commanded the first regiment and other foreigners in Sicilian service the 2nd Calabrian Free Corps / Calabrian Light Infantry and Rifles raised by Sir John Stuart in Sicily. Two battalions: Uniform as British Light infantry: yellow collar and cuffs, dark blue piping, white turnbacks, gold lace loops and epaulettes; brass shako-plate, green plume, red sash, sky-blue breeches, black belts, steel scabbard, gilt sword-hilt, gold knot..
Alternative: dark green coats, yellow collar and cuffs, and white piping and turnbacks; either light blue trousers or bluish grey overalls; tapered light infantry shako with a green plume; white metal badges, shako trim and buttons. Or: blue-green coat for the Rifles only. 3rd 'Estero' Sicilian Infantry Regiment Like the British Line infantry but coat was dark blue, with shoulder straps, piped in white. The cuffs, collar and turnbacks were red, with white piping. Summer issue trousers were white, but winter issue was dark blue, with grey gaiters. The light company probably replaced the shako with a type of top hat with a green plume.
They all fought at Castella in Spain, for example. |
| Whirlwind | 13 Nov 2009 10:43 p.m. PST |
I'm a fool. I meant to put this link in: TMP link |
| trailape | 13 Nov 2009 11:33 p.m. PST |
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| Steven H Smith | 14 Nov 2009 12:51 a.m. PST |
The Croatian Regiments did not have a green uniform until 1812. |
| Lord Armchair | 29 Nov 2009 4:51 p.m. PST |
Is there any infomation available for Battles that Italian Units were involved in in the Pensinsula? Id like to paint up some as allies for my French but would like to be somewhat historic in choices…. thanks. |
| Ed von HesseFedora | 01 Dec 2009 2:10 p.m. PST |
There is some info here: link |
| kustenjaeger | 02 Dec 2009 3:28 a.m. PST |
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