"Portuguese Cacadore Equipment" Topic

I am currently painting a company of Cacadore's from the Warlord Portuguese Infantry sprue and in spite of delving through my books on Napoleonic uniforms I cannot determine which of the provided backpacks were or was worn by the Cacadores?
In addition there is a pineapple like object on the sprue which I have identified as a canteen of some description in a woven carrier. Can anyone throw any light on the container held within – was it a wine bottle or tin canteen and is this an alternative to the British canteen and available to all Portuguese infantry regiments.
Any help on this matter would be appreciated.
British Bulldog

What you describe sound like a personal acquisition. Usually the item you described would be a glass bottle inside a protective container. As the Portuguese were equipped by the British, I would stick with the standard canteen and add the flask as a piece of 'booty'.

I do not know about this product, but the early cacadores has an animal hide backpack, as for the French and Spanish. They also wore the Barretina shako, somewhat like the British Waterloo shako.

When they went to the stove pipe shako, they also adopted the British style non-hide backpacks. I recall seeing some in a yellowish material, others in black.

I once saw Portuguese with natural wood water flasks, looking just like the British light blue flasks. Anyone remember seeing these?

GdeP

Thanks Artilleryman and Garde de Paris,
I realise now that perhaps this would have been better placed in the 'Discussion' thread.
However, thank you both for taking the trouble to reply.
I have contacted Warlord Games this afternoon with a view to getting a more definitive answer. I am still in some doubt as there are four versions of the backpack on the sprue including the grenadier version.
Regarding the wine/water bottle in the woven protection I have come across a sketch of a Portuguese Infantry man C1812 with a similar item as part of his equipment and wearing the stovepipe shako. This appears on page 22 of the Men at Arms Portugese Army of the Napoleonic wars.
I appreciate that there is some lattitude regarding uniforms and equipment but I recall seeing somewhere a picture of a Cacadore wearing the wine/water bottle rather than the contemporary canteen. As there is a backpack with two pouches and no canteen attached on the sprue I was wondering if this was the alternative, along with the water/wine bottle, to those backpacks on the sprue with the canteen and gourds attached.
British Bulldog