"Spanish Josefinos." Topic

There are not much there about the Army of Joseph Bonapart.
This is a very good job about how looks their uniforms.

These draw show a soldier from the Spanish Regiment from Leon taking prisioner a surrender Josefino soldier.

The next draw show a Voltiguer of the Joseph Napoleon Regiment.

This is interesting too, a soldier of the Baza Regiment 1808-1809.

This last one show the uniform of a soldier of the Guadalajara Regiment in Dennmark in 1807.

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Hope you enjoy!.

Amicalement
Armand

Fantastic finds many thanks for finding and sharing…

Aye – those are great!

Awesome picks. I like that uniform with the upturned round hat.

Tango01

Another good one! Much appreciated and please keep them coming.

Happy you had enjoy the Josefinos boys!!.

Amicalement
Armand

Armand,

As always, you have found some great items.

Without stealing your thread, have you ever come across a good source of color prints of Grenadier bearskin bags for each of the Spanish regiments? This would be a great find.

Thanks, Bill

Great findings, Armand.

I think this guy has some illustrations of his in the Desperta Ferro! magazine, a great publication by the way.

The Ristre series on the Spanish Army 1808 shows the bags to be of the same colour as the uniform facing colour. However, other illustrations do show variations to this rule – e.g drawing by Dionosio of La Corona (1802) black facings, blue bag; a drawing by Bueno shows an unnamed regiment 1802-05)with black facings edged red, red bag.

Page 62 of Jose Bueno's "Uniformes Espanoles El Ejercito y la Armada en 1808" says
"Las caracteristicas de los granaderos eran el alto gorro de pile de oso con una larga manga bordada caida a la espalda, generalmente del color de la divisade su regimiento, con escudo regimental y un complicado bordado que solia variar en cada regimiento; tambien era distintivo de los granaderos las sardinetas que adornaban sus bocamangas y el porta-mecha et en la bandolera de la cartuchera, asi como el uso del sable."

I leave the translation to a fluent Spanish/English speaker.

More or less:

"The characteristics of the Grenadiers were the high hat of bear skin with a long sleeve embroidered which fall to the back, usually showing the color of his Regiment, including the Regimental coat and a complicated embroidery which vary from each Regiment; it was also distinctive of the grenadiers the chevrons which adorning their sleeves and
the wickholder in the shoulder holster, as well as the use of the saber"

Glad you enjoy too my friends.
Bill, I would tried.

Amicalement
Armand

Well, I had something in my files.

Grenadier from Guadalajara.

Province militia grenadier.

Princesa, Guadalajara and Zamora Greandiers,

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Swiss Greanadier officer.

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More here.
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Hope it's help a little.

Amicalement
Armand

Really really want to paint up a Spanish grenadier battalion. But I'm afraid to tackle the detail on the bag.

Thanks guys for the info on the Spanish Grenadier's bearskin bags. Seems every regiment is different and I was hoping to find a single source for this information since I do not speak Spanish.

Regards, Bill

Bill, there you can see the Spanish Regiments.
If you need any help, please ask me.

Amicalement
Armand