Wurttemberg standards 1809-14
Hi , I’m wondering how many standards the line infantry carried in the field from 1809-14 please. As my sources vary from 1 to 2 per battalion .
We’re the flagpoles painted ..one source states that the top half(?) of the pole was painted black and if so wouldn’t most of that have been covered by the Flag itself????
any Cords or cravats??
Thanks
Peter
This Christmas I was given a copy of Wurttemberg Infantry of the Napoleonic Wars by David Wright, published by Ken Trotman books. It is a very well laid out, nicely illustrated, softback book and in it the author gives details of the colours carried by each of the line and guard infantry regiments. A brief summation of the information Wright gives would be that colours were produced in 1798, 1803, 1807 and 1811 (but the latter were not issued until 1813). For most of the period each battalion of a regiment carried two identical standards. The exception was in 1813 when the 1811 colours were awarded. At this point each battalion carried one of the new colours. In 1814 there was a redistribution of colours at which point each battalion returned to carrying two colours. However, the colours carried by the first and second battalions of a regiment might now be different, with the first battalion carrying two of the 1811 colours and the second carrying two from an earlier award.
It is all a bit confusing but David Wright sets it out a lot more clearly than I have succeeded in doing and if you are interested in the subject I think it is well worth investing in his book.
https://kentrotman.co.uk/newbooks/wurttemberg-infantry-of-the-napoleonic-wars-military-colours-4/