"French infantry uniforms 1813-15" Topic

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Amicalement
Armand

Yup – good stuff.

It still continues some old errors. It has for instance been well established by now that the French army did supply canteens. First tin ones and later glass water bottles covered with wicker.

It still continues some old errors. It has for instance been well established by now that the French army did supply canteens. First tin ones and later glass water bottles covered with wicker.

I agree, even in 1813 still a lot of those white metal ones can be seen.

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It still continues some old errors. It has for instance been well established by now that the French army did supply canteens. First tin ones and later glass water bottles covered with wicker.

Do you have a source or sources?

I believe that the French sometimes used gourds, Can anyone shed more light on this idea?

Hinchliffe French line infantry had wicker covered bottles 40 years ago…

indeed they did – they used quite a lot of variations, glass in wicker cover, gourds, white metal.

I think the point made in the article is that they were all carried, but had to be personally acquired, style according to preference. The claim is that they were not official issue.

Confess I have no idea. I thought this useful and it led me onto the Saxon coverage. Great find. Never noticed this on Calpe's site

Gourd version by Rousselot

a lot stuff was issued, grand bidons, cooking pots – Leopold Beyer shows this all well in his series about the French Army of 1813

great source – thanks Armand.

It still continues some old errors. It has for instance been well established by now that the French army did supply canteens. First tin ones and later glass water bottles covered with wicker.

Do you have a source or sources?

Yes. See for instance: theblueposts.org/deuxponts/petitbidon.html
See also: Bardin, "Dictionnaire d l'Armée de Terre, Tome II", p. 755

BIDON (bidons) d'HOMME DE TROUPE (B,1), ou PETIT BIDON.
Sorte de BIDON DE COMPAGNIE dont l'emploi était personnel: il était en fer-blanc: on le nommait Bidon d'homme de troupe, pour le distinguer du BIDON A VINAIGRE. Il faisait partie des FOURNITURES DE CAMPAGNE. Suivant l'ORDONNANCE DE 1778 (28 AVRIL), il était en forme de ſlacon aplati et convexe d'un côté; il était suspendu à une courroie large d'un pouce. — La MASSE DE CAMPEMENT devait pourvoir à la FOURNITURE des Bidons; cette disposition a été de peu de durée. — Un décret impérial remplaçait les Bidons de l'INFANTERIE FRANÇAISE par des BOUTEILLES CLISSÉES auxquelles il fallut renoncer bientôt à cause de leur fragilité.