I was going to say that the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers (ordnance regiment) formed in 1685, and later the 7th Foot, had colours from the start. It consisted of a red cross on a white field, with cannons and other military paraphernalia coming out of the four corners where the arms of the cross inte...

For the Royal Regiment of Artillery, the guns themselves ARE the colours, it may have been the same for the fusileers as they were originally the artillery train guards... Ooooohh that's an 18th Century and Victorian fiction. Marlborough's artillery certainly had colours (illustrated in C C P Lawso...

Re Army under William. Other projects on the go at the moment but am researching the Army under William as I go but have to say that I think I am a few years away from that one yet (although not thirty years away - Still haven't got over that - THIRTY YEARS ???? :) ) The Dutch Army under William is,...

Hi, Author here... Couple of things. Yes, this is a very much expanded and extended version of the booklet that I did thirty years ago (THIRTY YEARS AGO ??? Grief !!!). To give you an idea - that work had about 6000 words - this has a little short of 70,000. I have also expanded it to include (as fa...

This is a heavily edited and reduced version of Chris Scott's superb PhD thesis which is available as a FREE download. Search

Military Effectiveness of the West Country Militia + Cranfield University

on Google and it will be the first hit on the page

Wonderful piece of work

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Both of the English Foot Guards regiments were entirely flintlock according to Sandford's Description of the Coronation of James II. The issue documents in the National Archives suggest that the bulk of the rest of the regiments of foot had matchlocks with, perhaps, one in ten flintlock armed. Inter...

My Apologies for any offence Mike none was intended - I was not aware that the colour in question was in Aughrim and my response was simply to a query about the "Robert Hall plates for the period" and their accuracy - the colour in question features on a plate by Hall which is sold by Dan Schorr in ...

I got it direct from the Military History Society of ireland http://www.mhsi.ie/ I can't see anywhere on the site now to buy from but and email should elicit details. There is an index of their journals on the site (foc) and sorry the special was the War of the Two Kings and it concerns onlt the Iri...

Those colours are recorded in June 1686 in the "James II Colour Manuscript" in the Royal Collection at Windsor Castle. Inspection Returns confirm that the Regiment was still carrying a colour of the same design as the 'Colonel's Colour' in 1748 and it seems likely therefore that they had been carryi...

The Irish Lifeguard of Horse (more correctly the Horse Guards) carried a standard that was almost the twin of that used by the 1st Troop of the English Horse Guards (there is a great colour plate reproduced in the special on the "War of the Three Kings" from the Military History Society of Ireland) ...

Hall's work is generally good but his plates on the English / Scots / British army are based entirely on secondary sources and some of those very dubious and 'amended' as they suit Hall's purposes. The situation with the supposed colour of Kirke's / Queen Dowager's being a case in point. The illustr...