"Prussian Fusiliers 1806" Topic
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| Mark J Wilson | 08 Apr 2025 3:16 a.m. PST |
Quick question – does anyone know if these units carried colours/flags/standards and if so where to find some details for specific battalions. |
robert piepenbrink  | 08 Apr 2025 5:54 a.m. PST |
My understanding is no flags. Very hard to prove a negative, but no fusilier colors are listed in my go-to books on Napoleonic standards. |
 ColCampbell | 08 Apr 2025 6:33 a.m. PST |
Same here. And it carried over into the post-1808 period when the fusilier battalion of the line infantry regiments has no colors. Jim |
| Mark J Wilson | 08 Apr 2025 8:52 a.m. PST |
Thanks gents. As you say Robert hard to prove a negative but if I can't find any patterns for the flags then they don't get the flags, so it amounts to the same thing. |
| Prince of Essling | 08 Apr 2025 10:03 a.m. PST |
As Digby-Smith said in his "The Prussian Army to 1815":
"Being light infantry, the fusiliers carried no colours." Sometime after the Napoleonic Wars the light troops including jager were issued with standards (I cannot see the exact date"Fahnen und Standarten der alten preussischen Armee nach dem Stande vom 1 August 1914" by Martin Lezius) |
| nsolomon99 | 08 Apr 2025 6:56 p.m. PST |
Correct, Prussian Fusilier battalions, in 1806, carried no colours. Tactically they were intended to fight dispersed, in woods, rough ground and in built-up areas. |
| von Winterfeldt | 09 Apr 2025 4:44 a.m. PST |
no colours, four companies, fighting in two ranks, could fight in close and open order |
| Baron von Wreckedoften II | 13 Apr 2025 7:52 a.m. PST |
Sometime after the Napoleonic Wars the light troops including jager were issued with standards (I cannot see the exact date"Fahnen und Standarten der alten preussischen Armee nach dem Stande vom 1 August 1914" by Martin Lezius) In the case of Brunswick (Inf. Regt #92 of the Prussian Army) they recycled the colours of the 2nd Line Battalion for the Fusiliers of the Guard, which had become the regiment's third battalion. |
| Baron von Wreckedoften II | 15 Apr 2025 8:06 a.m. PST |
Sorry, the colours of the 1st Line Battalion of 1815 were carried by the 1st and 2nd Battalions of I.R. 92. |
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