Miscellaneous points

1. I am not dead

2. John Kinross says of Col. Harbord's Troop, 'Harbord was the financial controller and his men were clerks'

3. Michael Sheane gives the French regiments present as: Zurlauben, Biron, Bouilly, Tirlon, Chémerault

Zurlauben checks out, obviously, Biron are Famechon far as I can tell, but the others are something of a mystery

Interesting grenadier cap

Very strange shape, very tall, and a cypher on the front?

Regiment is the Queen's, in their capacity as the Tangiers, far as I can make out





Couple other pictures while I'm at it, all from our friend the Vinkhuijzen Collection

Histoire de l'Ancienne Infanterie Française, Vol.1

Couple of interesting plates (cropped and stuck together here), chiefly interesting for the flags; uniforms are of a fair bit later

Identity of the Famechon and Mérode Regiments, and other things

Came across http://books.google.com/books?id=noAaAAAAYAAJ&dq=Jean+bernard+O%C3%8BHM&source=gbs_navlinks_s which appaears to be a good resource for the French, soI had a search for the two French regiments I can't find a lot on, and came up with:

Famechon:

Became the Régiment du Saint-Mauris in 1761(via other name-changes), which gives us a flag of brown/black/black/brown according to www.drapeaux.org, and grey coats faced red with brass buttons and a black/black/black/black flag according to http://patricemenguy.free.fr/sujetsdubienaime/uniformes/Infanterie/Francais/Biron.htm



Mérode:

A bit trickier. The PDF above says it became the régiment de Tournon in October 1690, and was disbanded in 1698. However, it still seems to have been around for the Camisard uprising according to http://www.camisard.org/forum/read.php?id=69870, which has the first poster referring to 'Agenois (Tournon)'. Going to drapeaux.org, we have this as the colour:



But this Rigo plate (taken from an eBay auction, of all places) disagrees:



as does the flyingpigment.com plate, which seems to replace Rigo's blue with red:



So I dunno. Drapeaux.org tends to disagree with other sources to varying extents, but I have no idea what is more correct. Regarding the top picture, I'm trying to have a few more pictures in my posts so here's a random image from the Vinkhuijzen Collection

Also, while looking this up I came across this:



which would indicate that the Dillon regiment originally wore blue and that their colour was red and blue, which confuses things further (if I am reading it correctly)

1690 in London

Came across a couple relevant-ish items in London:

1. 'The Market Place and the Grote Kerk at Haarlem' by Gerrit Berckheyde (dated 1679) in the National Gallery contains this rather martial-looking figure in the bottom-left who is presumably an officer. Very short sleeves notable

EDIT: A Mr. Rampjarr, from the 'Anno Domini 1672' blog at http://rampjaar.blogspot.com/ kindly informs me that the date of the painting is in fact 1674.

2. A very nice model of a regiment of foot in 1685 in the National Army Museum, with five companies (R-L): grenadiers, musketeers with flag of St. George's cross edged white on a blue field with small JR cypher in centre (I think, it was very small) as the flag, musketeers with flag the same, nothing in centre, musketeers with flag as the previous, long yellow pile in top-left corner, musketeers with flag as previous, piles as before in all corners, starting from corners closest to St. George's cross. All red lined blue, silver buttons

This doesn't tally to any known regiments, incidentally, but was nice to see

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

Gardet til Fods Colours

Taken down, research pending