"Nassau Usingen Regiments 1815" Topic

Got a few questions to ask about Perry Miniatures Nassau Contingent.

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Got a few questions to ask about Perry Miniatures Nassau Contingent, paint colours and some other queries…

1. What Vallejo code best for the uniform green?

2. What colour are the cross belts and is this same as the piping on the uniforms? Again is there a Vallejo colour suitable.

3. Off topic, did the Jager company use rifles rather than muskets.

4. Lastly, where in the line were the Nassau at Waterloo?

Really like the look of these Perry casts…

Bob

See this site for the various Nassau troops at Waterloo:

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Belts for some were a buff colour, piping was yellow.

The 2nd Nassau and Orange-Nassau were on the East flank, around Papelotte, the 1st Nassau was behind the centre.
Some also were in the Hougoumont woods in the beginning of the battle.

Cliff

That was I/2nd Nassau, detached from Saxe-Weimar's brigade on the eastern flank. The other two battalions of 2nd Nassau were kept as a reserve behind Papelotte, while the 28th Orange-Nassau sent companies and skirmish sections to occupy buildings and hedges as far out as Frischermont.

The volunteer Jäger company was attached to the 28th Orange-Nassau regiment it seems, and following the custom for these units would have equipped itself with rifles.

This isn't strictly to do with the painting of the Nassau, but Captain Emil Bergmann's own extant account states that the Volunteer Jäger company, which was equipped with various rifles of different calibre, had expended all of its ammunition on the 16th, and so only twelve men and two officers served at Waterloo. The others were sent to the rear. I do have some very interesting manuscript items relating to the uniforms of the Nassau, and what is of interest is the amount of variation the troops had. Indeed, I believe that many of the latter companies in the 2nd and 3rd Battalions of the 2nd Nassau, from Sachsen-Weimar's Brigade, were wearing the uniforms they had been given in 1813, and were equipped with an array of different items. Certainly these poor souls were given the worst of the second hand India Pattern muskets which had been sent to the Low Countires from Britain, and they had a terrible time in getting them into a serviceable state. This is corroborated by various Dutch accounts, which state that the Nassau troops were waiting in line outside the Jewellers shops while their weapons were being repaired. John

John, thats fascinating and very interesting about the Volunteer Jager Company. I am very tempted, purely because the sculpts look so nice to get some Perry Nassau. The Jager would habe be a nice choice to worry the french voltgiures but with only 12 men and 2 officers on the field of battle the presence would not have been greatly felt.

Bob