"Spanish Hibernia Regiment 1808" Topic

I am about to start work on these, and have been planning to use a Sky Blue coat similar to the Irlanda regiment.

The only thing that has given me some pause for thought is Rene Chartrand's Osprey book where he indicates that the 1805 issue was a white coatee with scarlet lapels and turnbacks, and a green collar.

Nafziger however states that the Hibernia were almost identical to the Irlanda, apart from their pewter buttons.

I was wondering if anyone knew where Chartrand may have obtained his information. His Ospreys are amongst the best in my opinion, but this doesn't ring true to me.

Andygamer where are you? I figure you'd know best!

I don't know about 1808 specifically but the Estado Militar Grafico de 1806 that I assume was painted from life for the King personally has Hibernia in white small clothes, sky blue coat, yellow turnbacks with blue hearts, yellow cuffs and lapels, and a blue collar. The shoulder straps are either sky blue piped yellow or are yellow too. It's a bit hard to tell from the watercolour. And it also looks like white metal buttons. The private illustrated also has a red pompom in his bicorne.

It just struck me that there's a sentence in the Osprey Wild Geese booklet about the Irish (and other foreigners) having been put into white coats but complaints from the colonels saw them indulged in the change to sky blue. Perhaps Chartrand's description is of the 1802 regulations that started out white but was changed to sky blue for the foreigners who wanted to retain a distinctive uniform?

Thanks Andygamer, that may be the case.

I was actually reading the description from his 1805 table, and can now see that the description for the Hibernia is exactly the same as that on the 1802 table, so Chartrand may simply have forgotten to change the details.