Being a uniform and flag design service to wargamers and to the imaginary crowned heads of 17th and 18th Century Europe, especially of the Seven Years War period - now By Appointment to the Court of Saxe-Bearstein! (But please note that the uniforms and flags presented here are not fictional - they are genuine 17th and 18th Century uniforms and flags that are as authentic as I can make them from my sources.)
No time to finish this off and post the final images tonight - far too late! Will hopefully have time to post tomorrow... It seems I'm not yet done with musicians - but at least this one doesn't have really fiddly lace. :-)
Posted by
David Morfitt
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Wednesday, April 08, 2009
Sir David, Excellent as usual. I painted this unit and it's nice to see my drummer is correctly done. I'm getting ready to paint my Beerstein Oldenberg Grenzers and checked all your uniforms. The closest thing I could find was your Austrian Croats. Are Croats and Grenzers the same thing? Best regards...Bill
ReplyDeleteBill,
ReplyDeleteBasically, yes. The word grenzer is adapted from the German word for border - grenze. The Austrian military border against the Ottoman Empire was inhabited by, among others, Croatians (Croats) who were employed in military service as their "feudal" duty to the Austrian crown. It seems that Croats became a generic term for any Austrian grenzer soldier. In Russia they were known as Pandurs.
Jim
Hi Bill,
ReplyDeleteThanks. Yes, as ColCampbell50 [Jim] says, Croats = Grenzers! :-)
All the best,
David.
Thank you gentlemen!
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