Saturday, 21 November 2009

Artillery








Haven't really given this much of a consideration before now

I have a nice illustration from the Vinkhuijzen uniforms collection of a cannon from the France 1650-1678 section, but it seems suitable enough judging by the clothes of the crewmen and style of the cannon, and then below it some excellent plates here I saved from http://www.battleoftheboyne.ie/artilleryusedatthebattle/ of Dutch, English, Dutch again and French artillery

The famous Jan Wyck painting also has cannons in the foreground

Thursday, 19 November 2009

Colonel Wynne's Guidon



Source is a post on the League of Augsburg Forum I unfortunately cannot recall the author of
(I'll get back to this)

Speculative; I'm sure the details are correct, but I'm assuming that it's the same for all three of the flags, as the cavalry flags generally go

Tuesday, 10 November 2009

Galmoy


Came across this today in my browsing:

http://indigo.ie/~wildgees/galmoy/gal_art2.htm

Interesting to see the very French-styled colour on the right, and the strange one on the left, with an arrangement of the crown and harp device I've never seen before, blue/yellow borders of the St. George's Cross, mysterious cypher in the centre, and the words on it, which would read 'PRO DEO REGE PATRIA ET' the way they're arranged

Raises some issues with the accuracy I suppose, but there you go anwyay

Sunday, 8 November 2009

Military Flags of the World 1618-1900



Downloaded this from http://military-machine.blogspot.com/
Has a few relevant plates

The British ones corroborate with Lawson, although the devices in general are slimmer/smaller, closer to the Reiver Castings flags, which is interesting
Very purplish colour on some is also interesting
Nice to see I got the 12th's Colonel's right

There's one of the Tangier Regiment 1st Captain's I've left off this accidentally, but it's nothing new

Count Schomberg's Standards



aka Count Schonburg's, Count Shamberg's, Count Schoenberg's, &c.

This is Ultra Speculative, as I have no better source than
http://www.warflag.com/flags/wss/wsseng9.shtml

Colonel Langston's Standards



Lawson

Sunday, 1 November 2009

Disclaimer

Seeing as this is, of course, a pretty contentious area of history, I feel obliged to say here that I have absolutely no agenda in writing this, an I'm not trying to 'get at' anything, so to speak.

If any of these things apply to you than there's better sites for that sort of thing I'm sure

Probably should've said this at the start but eh, you live and learn

New picture at the top also, a Lawson illustration