Flag and uniform of Dutch Infantry Regiment Ingen-Nielant/Gent/Essen/Plettenberg late 17th to early 18th century

First raised 1622 for the Count van Nassau-Dietz. One battalion strong. Province of Geldern

This is my version of the flag of Regiment Ingen-Nielant/Gent/Essen/Plettenberg. Boxel's manual of 1672 merely notes that the flag had blue and white flames, which is all we know, and Bruno Mugnai in his Helion book on the Dutch army 1660-1687 recreates it with a central motif of a bunch of arrows, a common Dutch emblem. For the overall design I used the pattern of flames as shown on the Aylva flag captured at Seneffe 1674 by the French, and on which I am also working. I have chosen an alternative emblem of the armoured arm with a sword for my version. I have been asked for a plausible Colonel's flag so came up with the flag below. Hall shows an example of a Dutch flag claimed to be of this regiment and captured by the French in 1746 at Namur (it is depicted in the Triomphes Louis XV), and suggests it may represent a suitable Colonel's flag. But to my mind Dutch flags changed quite significantly from the WSS to mid-18th century so I am not at all convinced this would be suitable for the WSS or earlier.

This is the page from Boxel's 1672 manual listing flag colours:

Colonels: 1622-1642 Willem Count van Nassau-Dietz; 1642-1661 Eustachius Puchler; 1661-1668 Daniel de Gennis Felin; 1668-1676 Johan Ingen Nielant; 1676-1682 Joachim van Gent, Baron van Meynderswijk; 1682-1699 Philips van Essen van Vanenburg; 1699-1717 Maurits Hendrik van Plettenberg, Herr van Leenhuysen (1702 Brigadier and 1709 General-major)

Service history:

1702: Posted to Sluis
1702-1703: Winter quarters in Flanders
1703: Battle of Stekene
1703-1704: Winter quarters in Flanders
1705: March-April Garrison of Hulst
1710: Siege of Douai

And this was probably the uniform in the late 17th century and also much of the WSS:

Flags and uniform of Prussian Garrison Regiment VII

First raised 1741 as the Stettin Garrison Regiment. 6 battalions strong before the Seven Years War. Garrisoned: 1st Battalion Glogau; 2nd Breslau; 3rd and 4th Berlin. In early 1757 the two Berlin battalions were doubled. The 5th was formed in Dresden and 6th in Berlin. The 3rd and 5th battalions were used to occupy Saxon forts on the Elbe.

On October 16th 1757, when Hadik's Corps raided Berlin, six companies of the regiment were part of the force defending; their commander Major von Tesmar was killed and the defenders routed. The 2nd battalion was allowed to retire when Breslau fell to the Austrians in November. In 1758 the 3rd and 5th battalions were with the Prussian army of Saxony and the 6th was sent to help garrison Küstrin, then besieged by the Russians. In 1759 the 3rd and 5th battalions were still with the army of Saxony and when Dresden surrendered on September 4th they were included in the haul of prisoners. On September 8th they were allowed to retire to Wittenberg. In 1760 they defended Leipzig. The two Berlin battalions were captured by the Russians on October 9th that year. And finally after the battle of Burkersdorf the 1st battalion was called from Glogau to help with the siege of Schweidnitz in 1762.

The grenadiers were with those of Fusilier Regiment 47 forming Wangenheim Grenadiers, who fought at Prague and Kolin in 1757, the siege of Olmütz and the battle of Domstadtl in 1758, and the incursion into Poland to destroy Russian magazines in 1759. In 1761 they took part in the defence of Colberg and then in 1762 in the siege and recapture of Schweidnitz.

And this was the uniform in 1756: