Descrption given in Sapherson is described as speculative, but tallies closely-ish with the plate of this regiment's colour in "TheDanish Army 1675-79" from nothernwars.com, so I've taken that design and given it the different colours and details as per Sapherson
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Friday, 25 December 2009
Dronningens Livregiment Colour
Descrption given in Sapherson is described as speculative, but tallies closely-ish with the plate of this regiment's colour in "TheDanish Army 1675-79" from nothernwars.com, so I've taken that design and given it the different colours and details as per Sapherson
Thursday, 26 November 2009
Lloyd's & Babington's
Thursday, 19 November 2009
Colonel Wynne's Guidon
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
Tuesday, 27 October 2009
Some Jacobite flags I made up
If anybody wants some flags
Left to right, top to bottom:
ECW Irish flag slogan; ditto; ditto, 'Carolus' changed to 'Jacobus'; Jacobite slogan plus red hand; French-style colour with the IHSV; ditto; cross and crown; Latin slogan I liked the sound of (my strength is from heaven); IHSV flag with swords; IHSVs with random colours
Monday, 26 October 2009
Oxford Blues
Sunday, 25 October 2009
Brigadier Trelawney's Colour
Saturday, 24 October 2009
Colonel Brewer's Colours
Into the realms of speculation a bit
Descrption is from, as usual, Lawson, but there's no mention of the colours of any of the details on the Colonel's, so I'm going on educated (or more likely not) guesses here
Also, in the Lawson there's also a drawing of two colours of the regiment captured by the French in 1693, which have as the device a crown with an arm holding an axe coming out of the top (my excellent knowledge of heraldic terms shining through here) and this is described as Brewer's coat of arms.
I assumed that those colours, explicitly labelled as Brewer's, were the ones I was after, and that the ones above, labelled Duke of Norfolk's Regiment 1688, were for when the regiment was the Duke of Norfolk's (surprisingly). However, the regiment became Brewer's in 1686 according to Richard Trimen, and so if that's the case it means that 'Norfolk's' colours were being used by Brewer in 1688, but not by 1693. Therefore, with no more information to go on, I'm giving the regiment the 1688 colours, for the rather specious reasons that there's more information on them, and 1688 is only 2 years off compared to 3.
This is why I will never be a proper historian
Gardes te Voet
Lieutenant-General Douglas' Colour
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