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.)
I was looking through the list of French cavalry regiments which served at Warburg 1760 and in the list are two with no known emblems but whose colours are a bit unusual - so Descars Cavalry had standards with aurore as the base colour and Espinchal Cavalry had ponceau red as their base colour. I thought I'd better add them to my list of generic standards so here they are, each in the two different styles I previously posted:
and:
Posted by
David Morfitt
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Thursday, July 25, 2024
Wow, those are pretty fancy and I could see the first one being used for a guards type unit as it looks so rich.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Steve. :-) French cavalry standards were usually pretty highly decorated; they clearly thought highly of themselves! (But isn't that true of almost all cavalry throughout history? https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get2/I0000LEv5mpE01Cg/fit=1000x750/Victorian-Military-Cartoons-Punch-Magazine-1892-12-10-274.jpg ;-))
DeleteAll the best,
David.
Another excellent selection of standards, thanks david.
ReplyDeleteWillz.
Thank you, Willz. :-) Now there are probably enough of the generic French cavalry standards for most eventualities!
DeleteAll the best,
David.
Crackin flags David.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Ray. :-) Not sure what I'll be doing next; I do have a fair number of flags in the stockpile, though.
DeleteAll the best,
David.
Lovely David. The ponceau one is crying out to be put into a painting!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Chris. Yes, indeed! :-)
ReplyDeleteAll the best,
David.