"Did the Neapolitans have Dragoons or not?" Topic
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 Field Marshal  | 16 Jun 2012 5:23 p.m. PST |
I have come across a few threads where people are saying they did not have a dragoon regiment as well as some online sources but then you have these
So was there a regiment of Dragoons or not? |
| 21eRegt | 16 Jun 2012 5:41 p.m. PST |
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| Field Marshal | 16 Jun 2012 6:00 p.m. PST |
A great website but its for the Kingdom of Italy not Naples FM |
| Edwulf | 16 Jun 2012 6:19 p.m. PST |
I think the dragoons were planned, and therefore had a uniform but Murat was done before they existed. |
| Ed von HesseFedora | 16 Jun 2012 6:22 p.m. PST |
The Italian version of Wikipedia has what appears to be a comprehensive list of all Italian (Kingdom of, Neapolitan, Sardinian, Sicilian, etc.) units. It does NOT list a Neapolitan dragoon: link |
 Chortle   | 16 Jun 2012 9:50 p.m. PST |
People deploy proposed German tank designs for 1946, so it isn't such a stretch to paint up this unit for a "what if" campaign, or just painting it up for the hell of it. Plenty of people paint the Lancers de Berg in their white/pink uniform armed with lances, when they were in fact armed with sabres when they wore that uniform. |
12345678  | 17 Jun 2012 12:08 a.m. PST |
The definitive answer to this is "no"; the unit was planned by Murat, but never existed. Despite the comment on the plate, it does not show up in any French orders of battle for 1813. |
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