A couple of glitches now corrected and the new version of the flags uploaded!
Originally a Walloon regiment. First raised June 1684 by N. Lallement. Given 14th April 1685 to Béat-Jacques de La Tour-Châtillon, Comte de Zurlauben (mortally wounded at Blenheim 1704).
Service (from Hall and Susane):
1689 Army of Catalonia
1690 Expedition to Ireland; almost destroyed at the Battle of the Boyne
1691 Army of Flanders; siege of Mons
1692 Siege of Namur; battle of Steenkirken
1693 Battle of Neerwinden; siege of Charleroi
1694-1695 Army of Flanders
1696-1697 Army of the Meuse
1701 Army of Italy; combat of Chiari
1702 In garrison at Mantua
1703 Army of the Rhine; capture of Breisach and Lansau; battle of Speyerbach
1704 Army of Bavaria; battle of Blenheim where the regiment was annihilated and the colonel mortally wounded (Hall adds that the colonel was wounded seven times and died later at Ulm) The regiment was two battalions strong and brigaded with regiment St Segond, stationed behind Blenheim village at the beginning of the battle
Disbanded 21st September 1704
And this was the uniform to 1702 and 1703-1704:
Another lovely set of flags David, and both the early and later uniforms are rather nice, the dark blue is pretty unusual.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Donnie. :-) I confess I rather like the splash of red on the earlier uniform!
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David.
Another cracker, David!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Ray. :-) It's interesting to see a non-Swiss unit outdoing the Swiss to some extent!
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David.
Oh my - now that's tempting not only for the glorious flag but also a non-grey uniform!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Steve. I hope you fall for temptation! :-)
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David.
Thanks david, ditto those uniforms are a doodle to paint.
ReplyDeleteWillz.
Thank you, Willz. Yes, the blue or blue and red looks relatively easy to do and should look good in the largely grey-clad ranks of the French! :-)
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David.
A very colourful and disitinctive design there David:).
ReplyDeleteThank you, Steve. :-) Yes, one of my favourites now, I think...
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David.