As so often with 18th century French cavalry standards, we do not know the emblems emblazoned on many of the standards carried by the French cavalry at Warburg. The list below shows what we do know and my suggested standards offered on the blog:
Montcalm - completely unknown (solution: use whichever of my generic standards appeals!)
Beauvilliers - Aurore with fringe gold and silver but emblem unknown (see below for my suggested solution)
Bourbon - Done and on the blog; see: https://nba-sywtemplates.blogspot.com/2022/06/experimental-french-cavalry-standards.html
Royal Étranger - Done and on the blog; see: https://nba-sywtemplates.blogspot.com/2022/06/french-cavalry-standard-royal-cavalry.html
Archiac - Red with gold embroidery and fringe but emblem unknown (solution: use one of my generic red standards)
Saint Aldegonde - Done and on the blog; see: https://nba-sywtemplates.blogspot.com/2023/08/warburg-french-flags-project-standard.html
La Reine - Known and still to do
Balincourt - Yellow with gold embroidery and fringe but emblem unknown (solution: use one of my generic yellow standards)
Crussol - Red with gold embroidery and fringe but emblem unknown (solution: use one of my generic red standards)
Royal Piémont - Done and on the blog; see: https://nba-sywtemplates.blogspot.com/2022/07/french-cavalry-standard-royal-piemont.html
Descars - Aurore with gold embroidery and fringe but emblem unknown (solution: use one of my generic aurore standards)
Espinchal - Ponceau with black border and gold embroidery and fringe but emblem unknown (see below for my suggested solution)
The generic French cavalry standards can be found on the blog here: https://nba-sywtemplates.blogspot.com/2024/05/generic-standards-for-french-cavalry.html and here: https://nba-sywtemplates.blogspot.com/2024/07/further-generic-standards-for-french.html (for the aurore and ponceau red ones)
As noted above, I still have the standard of the regiment La Reine to do!
And for detailed information on the battle of Warburg and the French regiments there please see: http://www.kronoskaf.com/syw/index.php?title=1760-07-31_-_Battle_of_Warburg
Lovely standards David and an interesting read to see what is done and still to do, great post.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Donnie. I wanted to make sure that every regiment present at Warburg had a decent standard to carry! :-)
DeleteAll the best,
David.
Excellent flags David.
ReplyDeleteWillz.
Thank you, Willz. :-)
DeleteAll the best,
David.
Nice info, or the little that is available, which puts your work into context as it were. Those flags really are beautiful and must have looked stunning when first made. Are any still in existance per chance?
ReplyDeleteThanks, Steve. :-) Yes, a few still survive and I plan to do some more specific standards using closely observed detail of the particulars of the central sun in splendour and the very variable outer emboidery. There were so many which have not survived that we have lost a vast amount of knowledge of the detail which sadly is gone for ever. But we have to make the best of what we do know!
DeleteI have been working on some Dutch flags of late for the late 17th and early 18th century; these are recreations of flags known only from a fragment recorded in the Triomphes Louis XIV. Some ImagiNation reuired!
All the best,
David.