From the regimental history 1685 pg. 4 Formed with 12 companies of fusiliers and 1 of miners uniform - scarlet coat, lined yellow, grey breeches and grey stockings, yellow cloth caps ornamented with military devices similar to those later adopted for grenadiers, other regiments wore round hats with ...

Scots Greys - hats or tricorne till after Ramillies (1706) given permission to wear grenadier cap (so late 06 or early 07 or maybe even later)
Bearskins came in with the 1768 regulations.

Thank you Mike and good luck with Ramillies.

regards

Mark

Thank you Rebel you have inspired me to look further. this is my summary of the French regiments sent to Ireland, if anyone can provide more details or corrections or pictures of these regiments would be great. 1. French provincial Regiment La Marche 1047 V8-229 - Boyne Colonel? Armand-Charles de Go...

James this should be a link to a previous thread http://www.leagueofaugsburg.com/fightingtalk/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=5149&p=33564&hilit=French+boyne+ireland#p33564 Zurlauban was made brigadier in 1690 (I assume at the start of 1690) so may have commanded the brigade, if so his Lt-colonel would have com...

Very impressive size regiments, complete with attached guns and various officers flitting about, looks very authentic and periody (!) nice terrain too, good stuff. All except for that green plasticy thing lurking in the trees?

That is a mighty big cannonball!

It does not help that the text has not been proofread after it was scanned! It is produced by some software called OCR Optical Character Recognition - not normally very successful with scans of old books, if you want the books download the pdf version (b/w if no pictures) no one is going to pay for...

I can't comment on the uniforms, but for Blenheim I have . . Brigadier Friedrich Johann von Bothmer Bothmer-dragoner (Celle) Reichs (6C) 4 esc. (3 esc. detached under Wood) Villers-dragoner (Celle) England (5C) 4 esc. Bülow-dragoner (Hann) England (7C) 4 esc. brigaded with other units Schulenburg-dr...

Ray Good question, I got it a few years ago. Caliver are a specialist supplier and not always the cheapest, although they deserve support. I always google for the best deals, often Amazon, book depository or similar, I use Abe books a lot, its amazing the price differences you see. £25 was the RRP i...

I have the book, but never finished reading it, it is possibly the most comprehensive book on the battle to date. (not that many anyway) I can't vouch for accuracy but it does contain fairly detailed looking OOBS for Allies and French, lists of regiments by nationality, casualties per regiment and d...

I have the Williamite wars and James II army by Childs, all his books are worthwhile getting.

The Danes had moved to Flintlocks very early, so 1690 all Flintlocks and no pikes, also had their grenade launchers and chevaux de frise. The Dutch were changing over, maybe 2/3 flintlock, there were not many Dutch units so maybe a higher proportion. The English and Irish seemed to be worst with a l...

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thank you very much

Ray

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