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by Arthur » Tue Jan 24, 2012 12:37 am
Dutch general officers do not seem to have had a prescribed uniform in 1704. They may have worn the deluxe version of their regimental uniform if they happened to be the colonel of a specific unit, or any coat of blue, red, grey or brown, suitably laced and ornamented to reflect their rank and suit their taste.
Period paintings show all manners of coat colours and lace (and also 3/4 suits of armour in some cases, but that was an artistic convention of the period and certainly not an accurate reflection of what these worthies wore in the field).
Mark Allen did a pretty good job of compiling the existing pictorial sources in one of his Wargames Illustrated articles on the Nine Year War (issue 175 dated April 2002 in case you're interested, and most of what he came up with for the period 1689-1697 should also apply to the early stages of the WSS).
One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I'll never know.
