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Saturday, 16 October 2010

Trooper, Saxon Garde du Corps 1756

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According to Johannes Eichhorn and Eberhard Boltze (details differ slightly). Text to follow sometime...
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Wednesday, 13 October 2010

French infantry officer in summer campaign dress, North America

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Wearing a gold-laced waistcoat with brown leather dragoon-style bottines, plush breeches and the gorget marking his rank, this officer is fr...
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Monday, 4 October 2010

Fusilier, Summer Dress, Compagnies Franches de la Marine, Canada 1750s

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In bonnet de police, regimental waistcoat or veste and Indian leggings, this is a fusilier of the colonial infantry dressed for summer camp...
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Friday, 1 October 2010

French Line Infantry North America, Summer Campaign Dress - Other Ranks

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Text to follow soon plus more French in summer campaign dress...
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Wednesday, 29 September 2010

Generic WSS Cavalryman

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Just a quick item - with more work it could no doubt be improved but this might be of some use to the WSS enthusiasts. When I get chance I...
Tuesday, 28 September 2010

Coming soon - French infantry in summer campaign dress, North America

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In North America the French infantry often fought in the summer in their long-sleeved waistcoats without the heavy justaucorps. That will be...
Monday, 27 September 2010

Private, New Jersey "Blues", North America 1755-1763

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One of the best of the locally-raised Provincial regiments, the New Jersey Blues were named after the blue coats they wore; blue became the ...
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Friday, 17 September 2010

British Light Infantrymen, North America 1759

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Light troops were much in demand in North America and "the most active resolute men" from the regular line regiments were selecte...
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Friday, 10 September 2010

British 80th Foot, North America 1758

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Uniforms of privates of the 80th Regiment of Light Armed Foot (Gage's Light Infantry), 1758. Although the ranger units were useful an...
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Monday, 6 September 2010

British Ranger Officer 1750s

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This is a somewhat speculative uniform, based on an illustration by G A Embleton, but is probably close to the sort of uniform British range...
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Sunday, 22 August 2010

British Rangers 1750s

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Although the most famous, then and now, Roger's Rangers were not the only irregular light troops employed by the British. Many wore a un...
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Sunday, 15 August 2010

Some historical flag work in progress...

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I'm in the middle of doing some historical flags for a friend and thought I'd post a snapshot of the the state of play on the "...
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Tuesday, 10 August 2010

Bavarian "Knecht" or Driver, on foot with gaiters

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Here's one of the essential, if unsung, characters of any army, a driver of the train. Mounted drivers wore long cavalry boots and the p...
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Wednesday, 21 July 2010

Hesse Kassel IR Prinz Carl, Musketeer 1762

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First raised 1683. Organisation SYW: 2 battalions each with 4 musketeer companies: each battalion also had a grenadier company which togethe...
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Wednesday, 7 July 2010

New Poll: Is there a need for a separate website for the templates?

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 In the image above the artist gets to grips with web design on a prototype 18th century computer... ;-) Several people have suggested in...
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Thursday, 3 June 2010

Saxon Feldjägerkorps Revisited

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Thanks to John Cunningham I now have an illustration of a Saxon Feldjäger from W. Dittrich's Sächsische Uniformbilder (1620-1810) . Date...
Thursday, 20 May 2010

Hesse Kassel Artilleryman (after Witzel)

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This is the post-1761 regulations Prussian-style artillery uniform as depicted by Witzel (full book reference, see below). As with the other...
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Sunday, 16 May 2010

Map and plan resources using Gimp (and Photoshop)

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Some useful map and plan Gimp brushes here: http://istarlome.deviantart.com/gallery/#brushes-and-vector-resources for those of you doing Im...
Saturday, 15 May 2010

Hesse Kassel Foot Jägers - Variant 2

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This version is based on the work of Rudolf Witzel, Hessen Kassels Regimenter in der Alliierten Armee 1762 , 2007, which shows the army in i...
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Thursday, 13 May 2010

Hesse Kassel Foot Jägers - Variant 1

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During the SYW there were 2 companies of foot jägers, to which were added 2 companies of mounted jägers in 1759. They fought in many small a...
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Sunday, 2 May 2010

Hesse Kassel Artilleryman

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Hesse-Kassel contributed a substantial force to the Allied army, including a fairly powerful artillery arm. The artillery were dressed in a ...
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Thursday, 15 April 2010

NCO of the Saxon Feldjägerkorps

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Apart from a verbal description of the uniform from Schirmer via Pengel and Hurt I can find nothing about this unit so if anyone can tell me...
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Sunday, 11 April 2010

Saxon Henneberg Militia 1756; militiaman

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The County of Henneberg was a detached part of Saxony well to the west in Franconia. As it was so isolated the inhabitants were expected to ...
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Saturday, 10 April 2010

Saxon Invalid or Garrison Company of Waldheim

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The Saxon Invalid or Garrison Company of Waldheim, 176 strong in September 1756, was one of the garrison units captured at Pirna (see previo...
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Thursday, 8 April 2010

Saxon Invalid or Garrison Troops 1756

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Most European nations at this time employed semi-invalid trained or veteran soldiers as garrison troops, to avoid having to use regular sold...
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