" Chasseurs Britanniques " Topic

Hi All

Going to start painting the Chasseurs Britanniques soon and got some conflicting info and yes I have googled them! Did the troops wear the normal brass plate on the shako or just a bugle horn badge, and did they have a colour of any type?

Thanks

I think there is a picture of them in one of the Ospreys on foreign troops.

No Eagle to my knowledge but a color was given. A bugle horn badge was the common symbol of the light troops but being Foregin troops, I can not rule out the plate on the shako.

Most colors that I have seen for foreign troops has been the diamond pattern even after the tricolor was adopted.

Rudy the Chasseurs Britanniques were a French emigree force that fought for the British not the French! Also Blueduck the Osprey is out of print!

I found this re-enactor site. They usually do pretty good research.

link

At the bottom of the page it says:

Uniform:

The Chasseurs Britanniques were originally dressed in green with yellow facings; black half-lapels, pointed cuffs, shoulder straps and turnbacks; grey long breeches; black half-gaiters; cylindrical shako with black cockade and green plume, white metal bugle horn badge; their equipment and accoutrements were still Russian.

In 1803, while on the Isle of Wight and the Channel Islands, uniform was changed in British red coats with light blue collar and cuffs; white turnbacks; silver lace for officers, white with a red and light blue stripe for others; white breeches with short black half gaiters; black stovepipe shako with white over red plume and a brass plate on the front; grenadier companies had a white plume, light companies a green plume; black leather sword and bayonet belts for all ranks. Officers had a large bicorn hat with a white over red cut feather plume; light company officers wore a shako with green plume; company officers had silver epaulettes on the shoulders, grenadier and light company officers had silver wings on each shoulder with grenade and bugle horn devices. Officers had also bugle-horn badges on the turnbacks. Crimson sash for officers, and a red sash with a central light blue stripe for the sergeants. Officers had a gilt hilted sword in a brown leather scabbard, mounted with gilt.

As far as I know, the Chasseurs Britanniques had no colours.

Oh, that whole part from Uniform down is a quote from the web site, not my opinion.

Thats great info and they show a drum and a drummer in the pictures.

Thanks

Andy B

Andy I do know that I posted wrong info and I screwed up being at work rather than the store. i got them confused with a Fr unit.

I actually have several copies of both of the British Emigree titles by Osprey in stock.