What is the current learned opinion on the dress of Montrose's Irish Brigade? Would the soldiers have uniforms? What were they? And if not, would their dress resemble the scottish lowlanders or highlanders?
Chema, after searching a lot, I've found this reference to red and blue spanish artillery uniforms: http://books.google.com.br/books?id=9k2PtLNcEEQC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Osprey+Publishing+-+Buccaneers&hl=pt-BR&sa=X&ei=LalyU-DHOomT8AHuqIHIBA&ved=0CDYQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=Blue&f=false However, the aut...
Hello everyone! Have you seem this month's book vote at the Osprey Publishing site? It has, among it's option, the interesting sounding "Combat - Landsknecht vs Swiss Pikeman: Italian Wars ". Currently, it's losing, but not by far. It's noy easy to find Renaissance wargaming foruns, and since many o...
Chema1986, your spanish artillery looks amazing! However, I've read in two spanish sites that the "blue coats with red facings" uniform appeared at the beggining of the XVIII Century, with the reorganization of the spanish artillery under Phillip V. However, none of those sites mentioned the uniform...
Does anyone knows what was the uniform of the spanish artillery during the end of the XVII century? I searched in my Boieri book about the Spanish Armies of the Nine Years War, but he doesn't mention the artillery ):
I know Kronoskaf, but it only mentions the native forces of the german pincipalities that didn't take part in the reichsarme
Friedrich August I., did the Archbishop of Trier have an army besides the Infantry Regiment Kurtrier of the Reichsarme?
Does anybody knows an uniformology book that covers the "native armies" (the units that were part of the states armies but werent part of the contingent those sent to the Reichsarme) of the german states, like the Prince-diocese of Würzburg or Prince-Bishopric of Münster, during the seven years war?...
Does Anyone have any clue about which uniforms were worn by the austrian and imperial troops during this war? The russian military history site "Xenophon-mil" has information about their 1680s uniforms, as does John Mollo's book "Military Fashion", but I couldn't find anything about their 1670s unif...