Saturday 16 October 2010

Trooper, Saxon Garde du Corps 1756


According to Johannes Eichhorn and Eberhard Boltze (details differ slightly). Text to follow sometime...

Wednesday 13 October 2010

French infantry officer in summer campaign dress, North America

Wearing a gold-laced waistcoat with brown leather dragoon-style bottines, plush breeches and the gorget marking his rank, this officer is from one of the red waistcoated French regiments in North America like La Sarre, Guyenne or Bearn.