"AWI "Hessian" Uniform Color for Waldeck Troops" Topic

I am interested in knowing what color uniforms and facing the small contengient from Waldeck had in the American War of Independence. Google searches have been very spotty. However I did see one picture (although not necisarily from the AWI) of a trooper in a white coat with blue turn backs.

These troops appear to be involved in the fighting at Fort Washington in 1776.

Any help or sources would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Blue coat, yellow facings. Perfectly "ordinary" Hessian looking. Took part in the Pensacola campaign.

I have been unable to find any flag information, except for a horizontal tricolor from the Napoleonic Wars, which cannot be right for AWI.
An old copy of the Courier had a series of flags from ~ 1740, including Waldeck, in black and white. It was one of those huge armorial things, but any link is tenuous at best.

Vaubanner Graphics sell a 15mm 3rd Waldeck flag in a sheet for Dutch armies in the WAS.
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However, the 3rd Waldeck in the AWI was raised as a new regiment. Still, it's better than nothing.

Blandford-McMillian book on 'Uniforms of the American Revolution has nice color plates of most of the German units. Prussian Blue that became more faded in the Florida sun with yellow facings (turnbacks red though) and yellow lace on tricorne. Grenadiers with bearskin, no plates, yellow bag with white tassels.

From my current project of a book on the hessian in AmRev. We also had an article in an early issue of Time Portal Passages (on Magweb) about German Aux. Forces.

"Waldeck Soldiers of the American Revolutionary War" by Bruce Burgoyne traces the entire regiment, man by man, and charts their service record in America. The unit was often referred to as the English-Waldeck Regiment, presumably to distinguish it from those in Dutch service (something of a tradition for the Waldeckers). After the AWI, it joined the Dutch army and ended up fighting against the British at the Cape of Good Hope in the 1790s.

"Enemy Views" is another of Burgoyne's books which looks at German participation in the war through diaries and journals of various officers and men. The book is broken down by year, then by campaign/battle, and then by individual account. There is quite a big section on the actions of 1776, including the attack on Fort Washington.

There is an illustration of the Waldeck uniform in the Mollo/McGregor book. The regimental colours were captured at Pensacola, so they may possibly be in a Spanish museum.

SM thanks, the Mollo book is the one that I was referring to as the Blandford published book.

The Lefferts book that I have is only in Black and White. i did see a few pictures of Waldeck troops on various modern postcards of the AmRev era.

If you have access to Magweb, or back issues of the Courier, Issue #65 has an article by Dan Schorr on "Dutch Colors and Standards of the War of Austrian Succession". Plate #33 is for IR Waldeck Regiment #3. The illustration is black and white, with a color key. #34 is for another Waldeck regiment.
Both are WAT too complicated to describe.

Admittedly, this is from 1740-1744. I use #33. It is probably wrong, but colorful. 8^)
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