These are figures
(all except the Foundry officer) from Black Hussar and they are ones
I have never used before. Normally I buy the marching pose but these
are ‘Spannt den Hahn!’ which I am not going to translate. They
are trickier to paint but I really like the pose which looks like
they mean business.
I have used the
flags from the plate which you can also see here. It is undated but I
believe the plate (and there are others in this range) dates from
anywhere from 1760 to the start of the AWI. Note that none of these
flags are those used in the AWI so my guess is that they were the
transitional flags before the AWI issue. I think that the names are
misleading too. This regiment is named as Erbprinz and Wutginau
became Erbprinz in 1776. The first Hessians arrived in America on
August 15, 1776 so hardly enough time to change the flags to the
newer and fancier AWI versions. I think the plates show the new flags
issued in 1760 when Landgrave Friedrich II came to the throne.
This is the first
battalion of two in the regiment.
Note: The Hessian
Lion always points away from the flagstaff in this period.
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