"Spanish flag poles" Topic
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ecaminis  | 28 May 2020 7:49 a.m. PST |
What color were their flagpoles in the 1808-1810 period? |
| Artilleryman | 28 May 2020 8:42 a.m. PST |
Three excellent questions. From my limited resources, it would appear that they were decorated with spiralling colours as in the Austrian Army. In the case of Spain they were scarlet and gold/yellow. |
| Prince of Essling | 28 May 2020 11:47 a.m. PST |
Bueno certainly has the red & gold/yellow spiral for the old regular infantry but there are illustrations (book on Catalonian units) for some of the newly raised infantry regiments (as well as some of the older regiments) in your timeframe with plain wood flagpoles. For cavalry Bueno shows for the Regt des Algarbes (1807-08) & Dragones de Lusitania (1805) with light wood coloured poles. However he also shows the Dragones des Villaviciosa (1808-09) with the spiral coloured flagpole!
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| robert piepenbrink | 28 May 2020 3:44 p.m. PST |
Striped flag poles. And me working on 5mm Napoleonic Spanish. Sorry, guys, but it's not going to happen. |
| spontoon | 04 Jun 2020 10:12 a.m. PST |
Not going to happen on my 25mm either! |
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