"Cossack Pennons" Topic

I realize that cossacks normally didn't have pennons on their spears / lances but assuming you have some that do and you don't want to clip them off, appropriate color?

Cheers,

The Bandit

Blue over red

Pick the colors of the nearest French/Allied lance-armed troops. It was a "ruse de guerre" not uncommon with Russian hussars and cossacks operating in detached service.

Otherwise you could go with blue + red for Don Cossacks and similar for others blue + piping/distictive color.

Also white with something religious (like a Russian Christian cross) in red or gold – still used for religious processions in Cossack areas of the Don and Kuban today.

Varies by the region; IIRC, the Don cossacks didn't have lance pennons, but others did.

From Nafziger's "The Russian Army, 1800-1815:

Don Cossacks – red shafts, no penons

Black Sea Cossacks – no info, probably like Don Cossacks

Orenburg Cossacks – raspberry and white pennons

Orel Cossacks – black shafts, no pennons

Siberian Cossacks – black lances, pennons white top, bottom by regiment: 1st lt green, 2nd lt blue, 3rd yellow, 4th dk blue, 5th raspberry, 6th brown, 7th fawn, 8th red, 9th violet, 10th dk green

Tchougouiev Cossacks – no info

Bug Cossacks – pennons white over dark blue

Ukranian Cossacks: pennon crimson and white

Peter

Viskovatov has similar information on skimming through it:

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There are also a great number of flags recoded in Viskovatov (not the same as lance pennons, of course).

Peter

Thank you to each of you!

Cheers,

The Bandit

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In Russian and in Black and White.
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In Russian and in Color and Black and White.
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Great links, 11th ACR!

Note for the Russian-language challenged : these are regimental flags, not lance pennons (except for the uhlan in the last linked image). But the linked images give a great view of the type of iconography to be expected.