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PIPERS05 Dec 2016 12:55 p.m. PST

Hi. Can Anyones say To me if any foot régimen of british infantry in syw wore blue coAt?
Excuse me for my english

Generalstoner4905 Dec 2016 1:15 p.m. PST

No English foot regiment wore a blue coat. The Royal Horse Guards were a cavalry regiment and wore blue coats with red cuffs.

steamingdave4705 Dec 2016 1:47 p.m. PST

Artillerymen wore blue coats. In North America there were infantry units wearing grey, green, brown etc but they were light troops and, as far as I know, none of these wore blue. As a general rule British line infantry wore red coats in SYW, as did most Hanoverian infantry. The Legion Brittanique (a Hanoverian formation, but one which was paid by the British) had two battalions in blue coats and they formed part of the Allied army at Warburg. The British did fight alongside Brunswick and Hessian units and their infantry were in blue coats.
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Dan Beattie05 Dec 2016 2:46 p.m. PST

The Jersey Blues were a Provincial unit from New Jersey in the French and Indian War. There service included surrendering at Fort William Henry in 1757.

They had a blue uniform faced red of a different pattern than that of the British infantry. It was a Highland pattern without lace or turnbacks.

AICUSV15 Dec 2016 2:52 p.m. PST

Also the Virginia regiment wore blue faced red. Each colony was to raise a regiment, several called for them to be in blue coats. How many of these regiments ever got uniforms is questionable.

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