"French Light Cavalry General's Uniform" Topic
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Mike Petro | 15 Apr 2014 12:50 p.m. PST |
Specifically Domon of Vandamme's Corps in 1815. Commanding all Chasseurs, would he adopt some Hussar style uniform or the plain General's blue uniform? I know Lasalle did not wear the blue regulation. |
ThePeninsularWarin15mm | 15 Apr 2014 1:17 p.m. PST |
Even the regimental officers in Chasseur units were known for adopting hussar boots/gaiters, fur headgear, plumes and dolmans. I'd expect a hussar style uniform. |
DHautpol | 16 Apr 2014 6:22 a.m. PST |
I once had a Historex kit of Murat from about 1807-09. The uniform was a hussar uniform with colpack, dolman, pelisse and tight breeches and the uniform sheet detailed two different colour schemes. One was Murat as Grand Duke of Berg – black colpack with red bag, plum coloured pelisse edged with black fur (I think) and white dolman and breeches, all with loads of senior hussar officer gold lacing. The boots were red leather with gold lace and tassels. My recollection of the other uniform is more vague as it was the Grand Duke version I painted. The alternative scheme was described as the standard General of Light Cavalry uniform. As I recall the colpack was brown fur with a red bag, dark green pelisse edged with brown fur, red dolman and dark green breeches, again with the senior officer gold lace. The boots could be red, green or yellow leather. If you look carefully at some of the portraits of Lasalle you can sometimes make out the red dolman under the dark green pelisse, which he always seems to be shown wearing rather than over the shoulder. The red overalls were his own invention, although you might have expected then to have been green like the breeches, but I have seen at least one print which shows a General of Light Cavalry uniform with red breeches rather than green. |
matthewgreen | 16 Apr 2014 9:42 a.m. PST |
I had always assumed that Lasalle was wearing the uniform of the 7th Hussars – but I hadn't noticed the red dolman. |
John Miller | 16 Apr 2014 2:10 p.m. PST |
There is a great figure, 54MM (?), I believe made in France, which I have been unable to find for sale in the USA, of the French Cavalry General Marulaz. He wears the uniform of his old Regiment, the 8th Hussars, but is wearing a bicorn instead of a colpack or shako, I think. He commanded the light cavalry division attached to Massena's fourth corps during the campaign of 1809 in Germany. I am not sure of the accuracy of this because the only portraits I have seen of him show him holding or wearing a colpack and I am not sure if he was still commanding the regiment when the paintings were done or if they are meant portray when he was a general officer. For my money I am doing him as the figure shows him, in the uniform of the 8th Hussars with a bicorn. Don't know if this is helpful to you or not but thought it was worth a try. John Miller |
Mserafin | 16 Apr 2014 4:22 p.m. PST |
My impression is that if there was a designated uniform for light cavalry generals, it was honored more in the breach than in the observance, with such officers wearing whatever outlandish concotion they could come up with. |
LeonAdler | 18 Apr 2014 2:22 p.m. PST |
Cavalry Officers pretty much wore what they fancied, many wore bicorne as a distinction but apart from the generals sash they could be in any sort of variation of standard cavalry officers uniform. The regulations refer to the uniform of General rank not specifically to arm of service so there wasn't specific regulations for cavalry Generals ( though not sure about the cuirassier Generals as they all seem to wear breastplate so that might have been a regulation that was actually obeyed lol.) L |
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