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Elsewhere, Warlord Games new page on the French Chasseurs à Cheval, seems to have caught Sparker‘s eye. It’s a nice piece of fluff to sell their new minis. And there’s nothing wrong with fluff, so long as it’s good fluff. So how did they do on the basics? The uniform facings of the French Chasseurs à Cheval are pretty straightforward. Here is a site with an excellent presentation:
http://www.histomin.com/wppaintguide/paintguidenap/paintguidenapFR/pgchasseursfr.htm
I might quibble whether yellow is an adequate translation of jonquil but I’m a quibbler. And another site also fine:
http://blundersonthedanube.blogspot.com/2011/02/french-chasseurs-cheval.html
By comparison, the table in this:
http://www.warlordgames.com/napoleons-eyes-and-ears-the-chasseurs-a-cheval-of-the-french-army/
is lacking. It was drawn from Partridge and Oliver’s Napoleonic Army Handbook: The French Army and Her Allies Vol 2 as, sort of, cited. I have only seen the first volume so I don’t know if the errors are in the original or occurred in the transcription, but obviously the 23d and 24th should have dark orange (capucine) cuffs, the 17th and 18th did not exist, and AFAIAA the lapels were green. Gold and lilac are not good choices for aurore and amaranthe.
Okay, there is competition:
http://www.napoleonguide.com/cavalry_frcolcac.htm
And Wikipedia has an article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniforms_of_La_Grande_Arm%C3%A9e#Horse_Chasseurs
and another version:
http://self.gutenberg.org/articles/uniforms_of_la_grande_arm%C3%A9e
Clearly either someone is busily propagating bad information, or someone’s bad information is getting plagarized
The internet opens a lot of doors, but you need to be careful which you chose.
The internet is also bad at color which doesn’t explain this problem but also doesn’t help the issue.
Cheers,
The Bandit
General Slade,
I don’t care to contribute at The Miniatures Page because of issues with the management and frustrations with the level of conversation.
If you read my post and followed the links, you would see I critique a number of websites I found with a quick Google search. My point is that one needs examine links and discriminate. Tango is there for those who don’t want to bother!
The uniforms of the Chasseurs à Cheval present far more challenges than the simple facing table. They probably varied from regulations more than any other branch of the Grande Armée. Histoire et Collections offer three booklets on these regiments, nicely illustrating the great range of dress. I don’t expect Warlord to get into that – it would discouragingly highlight the limited range of their sculpts
– but I don’t think asking that they get the basic facings table right is unreasonable. I cannot fix the internet one page at a time (much as I might wish to.
) but maybe I can prod Warlord to give their author a copy of Roussolet next time.JG
(Speaking of critical review, I can’t vouch for Histoire et Collections as I don’t really study French uniforms. I did pull them off the shelf and check the facings table, and noted that green was presented as “green“, “Green“, and, uh, “vert“!
)Don’t be shy to ask if you need some native French translations
Modern French “Chasseurs Alpins” (Chasseurs Mountain infantry) never mention the colour “jaune” (yellow), they call it “jonquille” although they think it is the same meaning but that’s regimental traditions. But I’m not sure when this tradition began.
http://www.argad-bzh.fr/argad/en.html
https://www.anargader.net/
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