zondag 17 mei 2020

Dutch FR Fieldbakery

I came accross a plate by Dirk Langendijk which normally is a reliable source of uniforms and situations of this period and which depicted a field bakery at the end of the 18th century
 
I have never seen a this kind of mobile breadovens so is made a biggger picture of this part of the drawing:

As I wanted a theme for our FR demo game for Crisis 2020 (which is cancelled by the way) I tried to model this ovens and find suitable figures for it in the range of Black Hussar Miniatures which, although ment for the SYW, would be suitable for my little French Revolutionary project.
So after modelling three ovens and ordering and painting the figures this is the result:













And of course you notice it is a Dutch bakery!


donderdag 14 mei 2020

Dutch colonels flags

As stated earlier, the Dutch battalions had two flags, a colonel's flag (mostly with the coat of arms of the province on whose paylist the regiment was or a coat of arms connected with the House of
Orange (eg for the three the Orange-Nassau regiments).
The Swiss regiments were of course an exception as were the regiments of some German princes.

As some of these flags are in the public domain (site of the Rijsmuseum Amsterdam) some colonels flags are underneath with a remark of the regiments (their number) who had these flags.
I based the regiments paying province on the 1793-1795 budget although Ten Raa in the latest "Het Staatse Leger nr IX) has some different province.

As only one flag of some provinces are known, it is of course possible that more designs of a provincial flag were used but that is unknown.


The colonelsflag of a Nassau-Orange regiment. As there are three of these (regiment nr 1, regiment nr 2 and regiment Erfprins) I think they all had the same colonels flag but had different coloured regimental flags). The flag measured 105*98 cm.

The colonels/provincial flag of Groningen (Stad en Lande). These could be used by the regiments:
- nr 2 (van Maneil) and 
- maybe nr 9 (van Randwijck) as the "Het Staatse leger" mentions Groningen as paying province but the budget another province (Holland) -see underneath.
The flag measured 99*95 cm.

The colonels/provincial flag of Holland. This flag measured 97*97 cm.

These could be used by the regiments:
- nr 3 (Van Dopf), 
- nr 4 (Von Wilcke), 
- nr 5 (Des Vilattes), 
- nr 7 (de Bons), 
- nr 8 (Bosc de la Calmette), 
- nr 9 (Van Randwijck-maybe: see Groningen), 
- nr 12 (Bedaulx), 
- nr 14 (Hessen-Darmstadt; probably the regimental showed the Hessen-Darmstadt coat of arms), 
- nr 15 (De Petit), 
- nr 18 (van Wartensleben), 
- nr 21 (Van Westerloo),
- nr 22 (Van Nijvenheim)
- nr 23 (Stuart)
- nr 24 (Bentinck)

The colonels/provincial flag of Overijssel. This flag measured 98*102 cm.

These could be used by the regiment:
- nr 20 (Van Geusau)
Of this last flag it is known that the backside didn't had the coat of arms of Overijssel but the State coat of arms which is: