| MarkCorbett | 14 Feb 2015 6:01 a.m. PST |
I suspect they would stay with the musketeers in the regiments but grateful for any advice / links. |
| Esquire | 14 Feb 2015 6:07 a.m. PST |
For the early period I know that they did not. |
| Zargon | 14 Feb 2015 6:39 a.m. PST |
Perhaps the liebfhanen of one of the regimental battalions? I'm also intrigued to know.
Cheers happy gaming |
| Winston Smith | 14 Feb 2015 7:49 a.m. PST |
Grenadier battalions of nearly every nation composed of converged companies almost never carried flags. The flags rightly belonged to the parent regiments. They did not belong to the companies, even though some carried them. I know nothing about Saxon practice but would be very surprised if they did not follow general practice of other nations. |
 Artilleryman  | 14 Feb 2015 9:13 a.m. PST |
The Austrian converged grenadier battalions carried an ordnungsfahnen from the senior regiment represented. However, certainly from 1812 onwards, the Saxon converged grenadier battalions carried a simple flag with the name of the battalion (usually the CO) on it. It did not have 'colour' status. See the Westfalia or Calpe sites for more. |
| BelgianRay | 14 Feb 2015 9:58 a.m. PST |
Definetly : no. And to be clear , they never did. |
| Zargon | 14 Feb 2015 3:54 p.m. PST |
Thanks gents, I shall do mine with a non parent 'flag' (because I could not bare the idea of such troops going 'bare' :)
Cheers |
| JimSelzer | 14 Feb 2015 7:31 p.m. PST |
my six converged Battalions didn't come with any and believe me the guy I bought them from would have had them done for he was a purist |
| MarkCorbett | 14 Feb 2015 7:52 p.m. PST |
Well that's cleared that up! Very grateful chaps. |
| Okiegamer | 15 Feb 2015 9:31 p.m. PST |
Does anyone know if the same was true for the Seven Year's War? |
| Musketier | 16 Feb 2015 8:48 a.m. PST |
Even truer – I don't think they even had the later fanions then, unless these be camp colours actually. The logic is always the same: Converged grenadiers were by definition ad-hoc units, drafted from several regiments both to concentrate the best men in spearhead units and to spread the damage from the often risky missions these battalions would be assigned across several regiments (who bore the burden of recruiting). Far more than mere field signs for unit recognition, regimental colours were symbols of the sovereign's authority, as delegated to the regimental colonel. So unless yours was a permanent unit commanded by a duly commissioned colonel with full powers, it didn't rate a stand of colours. |
| summerfield | 17 Feb 2015 9:40 a.m. PST |
Simple answer is no flags. |
gets started with Flintloque.
