What's on your workbench?

[RMD]

Errrr, shouldn't the Zweibrucken Regiment have blue coats (and rather more majestic colours)?

Here ya go: https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/800x ... MU9dVs.jpg

The blue uniform with crimson facings came in 1761 and the yellow facings actually came after the war. The fancy colours were first described in 1757 (possibly from an authorised pattern rather than actual flags) and possibly weren't issued until much later (as late as 1770).

[ochoin]

Lovely unit.

I believe in the Nap. Wars, certain graft & corruption would be possible with a uniform change - Honorary Colonels & such like
allowing governmental money providing to stick to fingers.

Any idea why Zweibrucken changed & changed again?

donald

[RMD]

Sorry, I posted the wrong link earlier. Here's the correct link: http://www.kronoskaf.com/syw/index.php? ... Infanterie

They were very newly-raised at the start of the war, so it was probably just quicker, easier and cheaper to get them into the field dressed as a 'French' regiment. It seems that their light blue 'German' uniforms and fancy flags were authorised very early on, but not actually adopted until 1760 at the very earliest. The regiment also went through a major reorganisation at the time, being reduced from four battalions to two (it had three battalions at Rossbach in 1757). They were also brigaded with the French Royal Roussillon Regt at the start of the war, rather than in a German brigade, so perhaps they were initially classed as a pukka French (as opposed to Foreign/German) regiment?

One thing I've been unable to discover is the drummers' livery. Uniquely for a 'Royal' regiment, they didn't wear the Royal livery and were instead authorised to wear the livery of the Duc de Deux-Ponts. I've been completely unable to discover what that might have been, so went with Royal livery in the end.

[grizzlymc]

Was that 2 bridges Duke?

[BaronVonWreckedoften]

Yes, that must have been an expensive trip to the dentist!

[BaronVonWreckedoften]

I stand corrected - I was going by my AWI-era knowledge of the French army and should have known better than to simply extrapolate backwards (which I'm always telling other people to be wary of doing).

[RMD]

I stand corrected - I was going by my AWI-era knowledge of the French army and should have known better than to simply extrapolate backwards (which I'm always telling other people to be wary of doing).

No, it was a fair question, as people do often depict the regiment that way for SYW, including the yellow facings, which were very much AWI.

[RMD]

Was that 2 bridges Duke?

Indeed. Zweibrucken if you prefer.

[grizzlymc]

From Alsace Lorraine then?

[Jeremy]

I have decided to embrace Falschirmuary