Paskal  | 10 Oct 2017 11:37 p.m. PST |
Hello everyone, Who knows the real battle order of the Austro-Hungarian at Fontenoy? … Thank you. |
| Green Tiger | 11 Oct 2017 1:26 a.m. PST |
8 squadrons of Dragoons, 3 squadrons of hussars, 250 infantry- approx 2,000 – you could leave them off… |
| Paskal | 11 Oct 2017 9:13 a.m. PST |
Thank you… But no I love them as much as the others and leave no side, on the other hand their infantry formed of frank bodies, what uniform? There is nothing in WAS figures for this type of troops..? And the WAS is not the SYW… |
9th Maine  | 12 Oct 2017 2:34 a.m. PST |
Austrian units at Fontenoy: DR Ligne (2)
DR Styrum (2)
HR Karolyi (2)
HR Beleznay (2)
Freicompagnien Beuvier
Freicompagnien Pertuiseaux Source: Österreichischer Erbfolge-Krieg 1740-1748. Vol. IX. Wien 1914 If you are looking for uniforms for the Freicompagnien, good luck. I don't believe there are any published sources. |
| Paskal | 12 Oct 2017 11:08 p.m. PST |
Thank you, we must continue the search … |
| seneffe | 15 Oct 2017 2:40 p.m. PST |
WAS Austrian Free Companies painted by David Morier who was with the allied army a couple of years after Fontenoy and painted many regiments as an eye witness. Not clear which units are represented- but they give a good clue about the uniforms. All of these units were Walloons I believe. link |
| Paskal | 16 Oct 2017 9:30 a.m. PST |
Yes, and these two companies that totaled 500 men were dressed how? |
| seneffe | 17 Oct 2017 1:08 p.m. PST |
Paskal,
Please see links below (and please compare to the free companies shown by Morier in my previous link). This is another David Morier painting (made c1747-48) of free companies skirmishing against French light troops in Flanders. We don't know which Free Company is depicted but in the original (which I have seen) the French look like the Grassins. So- it is JUST possible that this picture is intended to show the free companies fighting at Fontenoy. Anyway- I believe that this illustration and the one I gave previously are the best images we currently have for the allied free companies of 1745-48. No-one can guarantee that they are correct- but if you paint them this way- you are at least going to be as accurate as is currently possible. link link |
| spontoon | 18 Oct 2017 1:17 p.m. PST |
Kronoskaf has them dressed in buff faced red in the SYW… |
| Paskal | 22 Oct 2017 11:29 a.m. PST |
Good evening Seneffe and spontoon thank you, So dear Seneffe according to you, the tricorne figures represent the WAS Austrian Free Companies in Fontenoy … But here (on your link of 15 Oct 2017 2:40 p.m. PST) there are three distinctive colors which is unfortunate for only two companies … Otherwise you have to use Austrian musketeer figurines of the WAS to represent them? I have more confidence in your links of 17 Oct 2017 1:08 p.m. In any case thank you you save my life, I suppose that we must base them as light troops on foot. |
