"Brunswick Light Infantry" Topic
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| ferg981 | 09 Apr 2016 8:45 a.m. PST |
All During the 100 days campaign did the Brunswick Light infantry battalions fight as light infantry, or were they used as Line troops effectively? What about the Avante Guard? Thanks in advance J |
| Marcel1809 | 09 Apr 2016 9:13 a.m. PST |
No real difference between Light and Line btns. They were organised and uniformed exactly the same, only the light battalions did not carry and standards. The Avant garde on the other hand was a specialist light corps with two companies of grey clad, rifle armed troops and two companies musket armed troops in dark green/black uniform.
As far as I know most of the Peninsular veterans were grouped in to thes Avant Garde battalion (don't have an exact source for that though) |
 ColCampbell  | 10 Apr 2016 12:12 p.m. PST |
According to my copy of The Regiments and Uniforms of the British, Portuguese, Spanish, Brunswick, and Netherlandish Armies: 1802-1815 by R. L. Yapple (wargamers' Library, Vol V), published by Der Kriegspielers in 1975: "The Avant-Garde light infantry and the Leib Battalion cadre were fromed from the Brunswick-Oels jagers." [which were the Brunswick troops in the Peninsula]. Jim |
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paints brigs for the British fleet.
