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fff200825 May 2015 4:02 a.m. PST

Hello,

I am wondering whether it might not be interesting to wargame the invasion of Calabria (1806) which seems to offer a mass of colourful and unusual troops (French, British, Bourbon Neapolitan, Italian, Polish, Russian maybe, as well a guerillas, all in a relatively small scale), and what resources there are, preferably on the internet:

OOBs
Uniforms
Nice miniature ranges

Any thoughts ?

Cheers

fff

Personal logo Whirlwind Supporting Member of TMP25 May 2015 7:50 a.m. PST

Some previous threads about the Sicilians/Neapolitans:

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There is some useful stuff in there, I hope it helps.

4th Cuirassier26 May 2015 3:16 a.m. PST

I keep looking at that campaign too – not least because it's contemporaneous with the 1805 to 1807 armies I'm building and the red coats would provide a bit of relief from painting white or blue coats.

The British forces were the 20th East Devonshire Regiment, who had pale yellow facings and silver officers' lace; the 27th Inniskillings (pale buff / gold, buff belts); the 35th Sussex (orange / silver); the 58th Rutlandshire (black / gold); and the 61st South Gloucesters (buff / silver and buff belts again).

There were also the Chasseurs Britanniques, who according to my research wore British Line uniform with light blue facings and silver lace, and a few companies apparently had black rather than white belts.

Another interesting unit was the Royal Corsican Rangers, who seem to have worn the rifle uniform but with red facings and blue trousers (like the 5/60th); two companies had the rifle, the other eight had muskets.

There was also a Regiment de Watteville, a rather obscure unit I've not found uniform data for although later in the wars Osprey says they had British line uniform with black facings and a black turnback badge.

These are all quite attractive uniforms because they are facing colours you don't see that often – well, you don't see the black, light blue or orange. Then you have the Tirailleurs Corse who look like riflemen but who mostly aren't. And of course they would be in Peninsular era rig so wholly usable in other campaigns. As an aside ISTR that all these units had been stationed in the Med before the campaign so they may have had some of the older headgear, not having been near a home supply depot in years.

daler240D26 May 2015 6:18 a.m. PST

Great idea And great information!

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