Monday, December 28, 2020

BATTLE OF TURIN 1706 - Errata Corrige. Régiment Dragons Bellabre

In my previous post I drew the uniforms of all the French Dragons Regiments present at the defence of the Castle of Lucento, during the Battle of Turin in 1706.


I painted it in this way:


This uniform could be confused with that of other units in the same fight. So I did my researches and I found for this regiment an order of tissue where the lining where defined "quatre vingt aulnes de serge d'aumalle verde de mer pour les doubles ... et huit aulnes de drap verd de mer ... pour les paremens" (1701). So linings and facings of this regiment were not in normal green (dark green like here) but a sea-green that is totally different.

I modified than the facings and linings of this regiment and to make it more remarkable on the battlefield I also changed a little bit the colour of  belt. This is the result:


Régiment de Dragons Bellabre (correct uniform)


I also did a little change in its position on the battlefiled:

This unit was firstly arrayed - in my conjectures - in the back of the first line. I decided that had more sense to deploy it in the Castle of Lucento to defend it.






New map






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4 comments:

  1. dfogleman2December 28, 2020 at 6:16 AM

    Very nice. Do you have a legend for the entire allied army order of battle, shown on your map of the entire battle on paper battles.it?

    Thanks? The information that you have on the battle is terrific.
    Dannie

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  2. irisbarbarescoDecember 29, 2020 at 4:11 AM

    Thanks. Yes I have. In reality, the OOB of the Imperial Army is quite simply to re-build because the Prince Eugene of Savoy, the morning of the Battle in his order of battle specified each unit. More difficult is to re-build the Piedmontese units that during the Battle where on the hill of Cavoretto (where I am residend :-) ) that menaced part of the French Army and blocked Albergotti (French Commander) to enter the Battle. This said, I will make a new post with the Imperial OOB.

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  3. UnknownJanuary 3, 2021 at 7:27 AM

    Hi. Just read through all posts on this site. Excellent ! The paper soldiers must have taken a huge amount of time to cut out. I would also be interested in seeing the Imperial and Piedmontese OOBs. Phil

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  4. irisbarbarescoJanuary 4, 2021 at 2:08 AM

    Thanks... well It took a lot of time but also gave me a lot of pleasure... and I have people "working" for me...
    As it mostly requested I will publish soon the Imperial OOB

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