Does anyone know the book where i can find combination of drummer uniform color and voltigeur epauletes/shako feathers, per french light infantry regiment?
a such book for each regiment will see the light with Paul Lindsay Dawson writing several volumes for Pen & Sword (concerning 1811-1815) and Helion, for 2023 at the very best, about Line and Light Infantry uniforms based from French Regimental Archives researches, his opinion after that is quite severe to not say trenchant
Some truly hideous colour combinations used
99% of representations of bands and drummers are total fiction
Just curious - I searched site and that link for 8th Legere but could not find this plate? Can you please send me a link to the plate just to explore it?
In his work on the Otto manuscript (Napoleon’s Soldiers page 75) he quotes a letter written by Soult in May 1808 to the Minister of War:“But there are still many other abuses which merit the attention of the Government both because of the inconvenience they create and the excessive expenses they occasion. All Colonels, both in the infantry and the cavalry, believe themselves to be authorised by custom to make arbitrary changes in the uniforms of drummers, trumpeters and musicians. There are some who’ limited only by imagination, pass successively from one style to another and from the bizarre to the ridiculous”Unless we have eye witness testimony this puts us at something of a disadvantage, as it would be dangerous to infer the General from the specific,In this work their are a number of Tambour-Major’s shown for ligne and légère but no drummers themselves
Pre or post Bardin? Osprey MAA 146 Napoleon’s Light Infantry ISBN 0-85045-521-9A Chasseurs drummer from 27eme Léger 1807 at plate E3The text though suggests the sky blue colouring was specific to the 27th
a such book for each regiment will see the light with Paul Lindsay Dawson writing several volumes for Pen & Sword (concerning 1811-1815) and Helion, for 2023 at the very best, about Line and Light Infantry uniforms based from French Regimental Archives researches, his opinion after that is quite severe to not say trenchant
Some truly hideous colour combinations used
99% of representations of bands and drummers are total fiction
Just curious - I searched site and that link for 8th Legere but could not find this plate? Can you please send me a link to the plate just to explore it?
Thank you! Very great site with source of information!
So how would you paint drummers in french light battalions?
In his work on the Otto manuscript (Napoleon’s Soldiers page 75) he quotes a letter written by Soult in May 1808 to the Minister of War: “But there are still many other abuses which merit the attention of the Government both because of the inconvenience they create and the excessive expenses they occasion. All Colonels, both in the infantry and the cavalry, believe themselves to be authorised by custom to make arbitrary changes in the uniforms of drummers, trumpeters and musicians. There are some who’ limited only by imagination, pass successively from one style to another and from the bizarre to the ridiculous” Unless we have eye witness testimony this puts us at something of a disadvantage, as it would be dangerous to infer the General from the specific, In this work their are a number of Tambour-Major’s shown for ligne and légère but no drummers themselves
Yes, pre bardin as i am making army for spain 1809-1812
Guy Dempsey’s work on the prints of Aaron Martinet only shows a ligne tambour, no légère musicians at all.
Yes, thats the one of which i know about. I have some other samples from other books. But was hoping for full list per regiment.
Pre or post Bardin? Osprey MAA 146 Napoleon’s Light Infantry ISBN 0-85045-521-9 A Chasseurs drummer from 27eme Léger 1807 at plate E3 The text though suggests the sky blue colouring was specific to the 27th