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by sharnydubs » Wed Dec 13, 2006 8:16 am
Barry, to add to the confusion
Arms and Uniforms of the Napoleonic Wars,Part 2, Lilian and Fred Funcken page 68 shows Regiment No 2 with sky blue piped with white collar, cuffs and turnbacks pre 1812 and post 1812 sky blue piped with white collar, cuffs and shoulder straps and sky bue turnbacks.
Napoleonic Army Handbook, French Army and her Allies, Michael Oliver and Richard Partridge page 329 lists orange facings (collar,cuffs,lapels and turnbacks) for Regient No 2 Herzog Wilhelm with only the lapels changing to dark blue from 1812. They show the 5th regiment (Prinz Friedrich) as having light blue facings but they don't appear to have battle honours after 1809.
Armies of 1812, Digby Smith, page 87, supports the orange facings, white piping argument for regiment No 2 Herzog Wilhelm. he doesn't even list the 5th.
I have Faber du Faur's illustrated memoirs With Napoleon in Russia. he has a number of Wurtemberger references but unfortunately I can't tell which regiments.
The Hourtelle book on the Moskova/Borodino which you have, I have found to be pretty reliable assuming you work on the basis that their colour illustration or red is really the orange referred to in the books !
Peter
Peter
"The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky"