At first sight this
regiment does not look Saxon at all but it was raised as a Fusilier
regiment and by that original description it's job was to protect the
artillery. By the SYW it was just another line regiment and had lost
it's previous specific role. But if you look at the uniform of the
Saxon artillery you will see that this regiment had essentially the
same uniform with the exception that the artillery had gold/brass
buttons and Rochow probably had silver/pewter ones.
There is confusion
about the button colour but I stick to the theory that this regiment
had white buttons to distinguish it from the artillery.
Agreed. I might just "need" to add this particular uniform to my hodge podge of fictitious Central European 18th century infantry.
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Stokes