Jim,
will leave the wit to the other contributors, but quite simply you have no problem at all, and it does you credit that you thought you might have.
Basically with the exception of the 'standing' units, the Jacobite army was equipped with kit drawn from French depots which was several years out of date, and thus would have given the troops a slightly 'older' appearance.
The 'standing' units such as the Foot Guards (later Dorrington's) would have been equipped with English kit which, given their distance from London, and also the fact that Ireland was a separate military establishment, would also have been past it's sell by date.
As the war progressed any damaged or replaced English kit would have been replaced by French materiel.
Churchill,
with regard to Robert's plates, they are probably as accurate a representation as you'll get, subject - as Barry says - to the invention of a time machine or a 400 year old man turning up. Reason is simply that Robert's research (as Dan Schorr and Iain Stanford will also testify) is exhaustive and, in the case of the French, involved his (and Michel Hanotaux/Yves Romigoux and a number of others) going through the *original* contracts, purchase orders and regimental records in the French archives.
- Mike.
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