BATTLE OF SANTA LUCIA - BATTAGLIA DI SANTA LUCIA 1848. Austrian Officers

 Again I did some researches about the Austrian officers in the period. They wore 3 different kind of coats:

a) the "Uniformenrock" (tail-coat), white

b) the "Campagnerock" (tail-coat) black/grey

c) the "Oberrock" (coat) black/grey

I checked again in some paintings of the period and above all that of the battle of Santa Luicia, Again I focused on a detail:

Here the Officers are all represented: on horse a field officer (major) with a Campagnerock; next to him a Captain in Campagnerock and in the ranks some Lieutenants again in Campagnerock. this allows to say that this was the usual uniform of Austrian officers in battle (actually to avoid to destroy their precisous white uniforms),

Hence I extracted the Captain:

Lieutenent of the Regiment Erzherzog Sigismond Nr. 45

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Lieutenant of the Grenadiers (Regg. Geppert)

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Captain of the Grenadiers (Regg. Geppert)

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Interesting to compare the Campagnerock of 1848 with the Napoleonic uniform of an Hungarian Regiment (1805 - 1815) in Oberrock.

Captain of the Grenadiers of an Hungarian Regiment

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