Wednesday, 7 May 2025

Flag of Brunswick Infantry Regiment Erbprinz August Wilhelm, Captured Bouchain 1712

I have been working on Brunswick flags of the period 1735-1754, which may have been carried during the Seven Years War, and came across this example of a captured Brunswick flag from 1712 depicted in the Triomphes Louis XIV. It is remarkably similar to the later models.

 


So far I have little information on the regiment, which was apparently in Dutch service in the period 1709-1713 and was 8 companies strong (acording to the Kronoskaf WSS webpage). I am currently waiting for a copy of Hall's volume on the armies of Hanover, Celle and Brunswick 1670-1715 and hope that may tell me more, which I can then add to this post.

Sunday, 4 May 2025

Standard of the English Queen Dowager's Horse 1685 (later King's Carabineers and then 6th Dragoon Guards)

Standard of the Queen Dowager's Horse 1685

The regiment carried three identical standards like this.

(later King's Regiment of Carabineers then 6th Dragoon Guards)

Detailed account of the regimental history up to the War of the Spanish Succession and beyond here on Kronoskaf: https://kronoskaf.com/wss/index.php?title=Carabineers