French SYW: Royal-Carabiniers (whole regiment)

Here is the whole regiment on my table ready for action. Total of 10 squadrons and 40 figures.
Figures by Foundry although there are some Front Rank horses mixed in with them.

French SYW: Royal-Carabiniers

This was a super-large and elite regiment of French cavalry. It consisted of 10 squadrons and was normally fielded together in it's own large brigade. I have painted half of it so far (20 figures shown) and the other twenty will be done this week. When finished I'll try to photograph the whole unit together as it will look rather impressive.

This is from Kronoskaf: “On June 23, the regiment took part in the battle of Krefeld where it formed the reserve of cavalry under the marquis de Poyanne. The Comte de Gisors, at the head of his regiment, charged the Hanoverian lines and managed to break through the first two lines and was fighting the third when retreat was ordered. While trying to disentangle his unit from the Hanoverian lines, Gisors was shot through his left side. At this battle, from a total of 1,329 men, it lost 700 troopers killed or wounded and 69 officers.” That was about 50% casualties!

SYW Late Saxon Cavalry

There is very little known about late cavalry raised by the Saxons. This would appear to be the only regiment and it is an amalgamation of two former regiments. This unit completes the Saxon project.
Figures are from Eureka.

Saxons SYW: Infantry Massed band.

Massed band of musicians from every regiment! Not designed to fight but to just stand at the back and play jaunty musical ditties while their colleagues get slaughtered.

This concludes the infantry part of this project.

Saxons SYW: Prinz August Grenadiers

Grenadiers of the early and late parts of the SYW. This was a yellow faced regiment with yellow buttons. This creates a painting problem with the drummer – they wore reversed colours so had yellow coats laced in yellow!

Saxons SYW: Late Kurprincessen Grenadiers

The Saxons system was to use a particular facing colour for two regiments and to give one regiment yellow buttons and the other one white. But in the case of the facing colour, pale blue, three regiments used this. In the early period this did not matter as Kurprincessen was a grenadier regiment and all its ranks wore the mitre (white buttons) and it was easily distinguishable from

Prinz Gotha Regiment, which also had white buttons, but whose rankers all wore the tricorne.

But between 1757 and 1761 Kurprincessen all were forced to wear the tricorne (the mitres had been lost at Pirna), and then later in 1761 they were all given lapels on their coats and bearskins. This created a problem distinguishing grenadiers of Kurpincessen with those of Prinz Gotha. The Saxon solution (in 1761) was to give the grenadiers of Kurpincessen medium blue lapels and waistcoat while retaining pale blue cuffs and turnbacks. Confused, I'm not surprised!

Saxons SYW: Rochow Fusiliers

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.