Flags and Uniform of the Danish Infantry Regiment Sjaellandske around 1699-1715

I had hoped to continue my plan of posting once a week but domestic and other problems since then have made it impossible. So here's my first posting in nearly two weeks.

Danish Infantry Regiment Sjaellandske: First raised 1628. 3 battalions strong, each of 6 companies, although one battalion had 7 companies, it seems, for a total of 19 companies.

One battalion fought in Ireland in English service from 1689 and was at the battles of the Boyne 1690 and Aughrim 1691.

One battalion was in Imperial service 1702-1709 at a theoretical strength of 691 men. It was at the battle of Luzzara in 1702.

Two battalions were in the service of Holland and England 1701-1714 with a strength of 13 companies and 1544 men. 

Service:

1702 Siege and capture of Liège.
1704 Battle of Blenheim; sieges of Trarbach and Saarburg.
1706 Battle of Ramillies; sieges of Antwerp, Ostend, Menin, Ath, Dendermonde and Oudenarde.
1709 Siege of Tournai; battle of Malplaquet.
1714 Returned to Denmark.

Fought in the Norwegian Campaign 1718.

The flag sheet shows flags as depicted by C. A. Sapherson in his The Danish Army 1699-1715.

Uniforms: Grey double breasted coat with dark blue cuffs, dark blue waistcoat and probably blue breeches and stockings, although one source says red stockings which I have depicted in my uniform plate.

 

Standards of the English Queen's Horse (Later 1st Dragoon Guards) 1693 as captured by the French and depicted in the Triomphes Louis XIV

The Triomphes images do not show a damask cloth but I am presuming that the originals almost certainly were of damask so I have depicted them with a subtle damask background. Full details of the regiment's history in this period can be found on the Kronoskaf WSS site here: https://kronoskaf.com/wss/index.php?title=Queen%27s_Regiment_of_Horse

 

Colours carried by the Duke of Norfolk's Regiment (later the 12th Foot) in 1686

These are the colours carried by the Duke of Norfolk's Regiment (later the 12th Foot) in 1686. We do not know exactly what colours they carried in the War of the Spanish Succession but flags from this regiment were captured by the French in 1695 and are very different from these. They may represent a pattern carried as late as the WSS and I shall eventually depict them too.

In 1686 the uniform was red lined white with blue breeches and stockings.  

Full details of the history of the regiment and its service can be found on the Kronoskaf website here:

https://kronoskaf.com/wss/index.php?title=Richard_Brewer%27s_Foot

The main source for the Kronoskaf account, Cannon, Richard: Historical record of the Twelfth, or The East Suffolk Regiment of Foot, London: Parker, Furnivall and Parker, 1848 can be found on archive.org: https://archive.org/details/cihm_48347.

Colours of The English Holland Regiment (later the 3rd Foot The Buffs) 1685 and 1693

In the 1680s and 1690s the Holland Regiment (later the 3rd Foot The Buffs) had a variety of unusual colours; by the War of the Spanish Succession they were different again and more conventional, and I shall depict those later.

Full details of the history of the regiment can be found here at the Kronoskaf WSS page: https://kronoskaf.com/wss/index.php?title=Prince_George_of_Denmark%27s_Foot Many of the reference volumes cited by Kronoskaf can be found on archive.org