One battalion with 6 fusilier companies and one grenadier company; 2 4 pounder guns. Nominal strength around 800 but lower in practice; for instance, in May 1758 it was 559. The two Cologne regiments, although single contingent units, were, as Kronoskaf says, "usually under strength, poorly armed and uniformed, and plagued with a high rate of desertion". The flags were very attractive, though!
In 1757 Soubise rated Wildenstein as "adequate" (Duffy) or "mediocre" (Kronoskaf).
Wildenstein missed Rossbach. In 1758-9 it was attached to Zweibrücken's Corps and was probably at Korbitz on September 21st. In 1760 it was at Strehla. In March 1761 its luck finally ran out and, while trying to guard the Saale river crossing at Schwarza, it, along with Mengersen Infantry, was captured by a roving Prussian corps.
And this was possibly the uniform in 1756 (Kronoskaf favours the coat with red facings):
David, you continue creating a variety of really interesting flags. Great job!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Jon. :-) There's certainly no lack of interesting flags still to do!
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David.
Lovely flags!! They certainly were not the most glorious of regiments but with flags like that who cares!! Nice understated uniform as well.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Donnie. :-) Absolutely; the flags do cry out to be used, don't they? And yes, a nicely simple uniform too.
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David.
Oh that's a very smart set of flags and uniforms, thanks for posting David.
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Thank you, Willz. :-) Hope to see the flags in use with some of your troops sometime!
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David.
The troops may have been poor, but boy did they have cracking flags. Just love these!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Steve. :-) It's going to be hard to match these for sheer spectacle, I think!
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David.