"Lauzun's Legion Infantry" Topic

Would the infantry of Lauzun's Legion been more like regular line infantry or light infantry?

Lauzun's infantry consisted of grenadiers, chasseurs and line (the latter reduced in strength because there was not enough room in the ships). Beside the line infantry there are no figures available. But you could solve this problem by a bit of putty for the grenadiers, and an exchange of heads for light dragoon heads for the chasseurs.
Have a look at my solution in 2009:
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Is it true that the infantry was in fact from the Regiment Deux Ponts? This would be a German line unit, not light infantry. Deux Ponts is the same as "zweibrucken" in German?

I once tried to paint the Deux Ponts flag of the 7 years war, and made the mistake of using the AWI illustration. If you want to use the Deux Pont unit, you might want to acquire the colours from a professional!

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Please look through this site for many uniform illustrations of this unit and many others.

GdeP

The refrence I have makes no mention of the Duex Ponts, it says the legion was raised in 1778 by Lauzuin and it was considered a "marine" (colonial forces were under control of the navy) foreign corps made up of Germans, Poles and Irishmen. The language of the corps was German.

There could have been "volunteers" from the Royal Deux Ponts (RDP) Regiment in Lauzon's Legion. In an article prepared by Robert Seilig, PhD, he stated that about 1/3 of the Legion's deserters were from the RDP.

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But as the Legion and the RDP were part of the Rochambeau's expedition to America, there could have been RDP soldiers assigned to the Legion to increase its strength.

Jim

Assuming that the "Grenadiers" wore bearskins, and most French Grenadiers did not, Front Rank make them, and Old Glory has the option to get 3 Grenadiers with bearskin in their AWI French Infantry pack.

Being a fancy schmancy Legion, why not bearskins?

Actually, they wore bearskinns! At the Duke's expense.
I would use Perry French grenadiers (AW151, 155, 160), and French Fusiliers (e.g.AW159) with 2nd Continental Light Dragoon heads (e.g. AW 187). (When I did my Lauzun infantry in 2009 the Perry figuresw had not yet appeared.)
The best documentary of Lauzun's Legion is in French:
Eugène Leliepvre, Costume Militaire, Ancien Regime, 12 La Légion de Lauzun 1778-1785, Edition Hussard du Marais Paris.

Kings Mountain make Continental LD heads. That would save on sacrificing innocent figures for the cause.

What flag did the Legion use.

Lauzan's Legion, which were naval troops-raised and paid by the Minister of Marine, and were a different unit from the Royal Deux Ponts, which was a foreign unit in French service.

The Ministry de la Marine planned to raise eight legions of German-speaking volunteers for service overseas-only three came into existence.

The 1st Legion served in the West Indies from 1779-1782 when it was disbanded. The 2d Legion became Lauzan's Legion and was sent with Rochambeau's Expeditionary Corps to the United States in 1780. The 3d Legion served in India during 1782-1783. Some of the hussars of the 1sr Legion were sent to the United States for Yorktown. Each legion had two companies of hussars. Of the 300 hussars in the US, half of them were armed with lances. They were uniformed in typical period hussar-style and the color of their dolmans was sky-blue.

The infantry of the three legions were uniformed in sky blue, which was the color assigned to German regiments in the French service. The infantry wore the cocked hat.

An excellent quick reference is The French Army in The American War of Independence by Rene Chartrand.

The Legion Hussars would become the 5th Regiment of Hussars.

As to their colors, good question. Check #7 out here;
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Here is another link to check out link