"Novgorod Musketeers 1805 " Topic

I´m building the Allied Fourth Column at Austerlitz in 28mm and orderd some flags from GMB. The one for the Novgorod Musketeers is the 1797 model but according to Hourtoulle the Regiment had the 1800 model in 1805. Anyone know if that was indeed the case? Or should I just get on with it and use the older model flag?

Just get on with it. There's not but a handful of humans who could argue with your choice, and even they don't agree amongst themselves.

Novgorod Musketeers received the 1797 pattern flag on 15 November 1798, are NOT identified as one of the tiny number of regiments listed as receiving the 1800 'Inspection' pattern. See T. Wise & G. Rosignoli, MAA-78, "Flags of the Napoleonic Wars (2)", pp. 28-34. The GMB flag is correct. Hourtoulle is notoriously untrustworthy for any nation except France.

Thank you Greystreak, I dug out the MMA-78 and just found Viskovatov Uniforms of the Russian Army vol.7 on Google Books that seems to suggest Hourtoulle is wrong. Not for the first time.

I agree. Pattern 1797 flags issued in November 1798 : 1 "white cross" with the corners halved blue and dark brown, the others "colored" dark brown cross with the corners blue.

Flags were denied the regiment for poor performance at Austerlitz. After which they used one banner of plain (unspecified) color per battalion until their meritorious sevice in the assault of Bazardzhik in June 1810, for which their flags were restored …. only to have them withdrawn again in October of the same year upon the regiment's re-assignment as the 43rd Jäger regiment.