French Light Cav. Chausseurs a cheval 1791-1812 Reg. Colour Humbrol code Humbrol Name 1-3 Ecarlate 60 Scarlet Scarlet - vivid orange-red but in practise any bright orangish red. 4-6 Jonquille A 5024 Yellow jonquille - a "bright, warm" yellow, so primrose may not be a good translation Primrose - pale yellow - mix in a lot of white 7-9 Rose A 5057 Rose Pink Rose - darker, bluer, and stronger than the usual pink 10-12 Cramoisi A 5059 ? Plum 13-15 Orange ? 16 Bleu Celeste 109 Matt WW1 Blue Sky Blue - bright blue 19-21 Aurore A 5046 aurore - salmon pink, but in practise could be quite yellow aurore - salmon pink - oranger, stronger, and darker than pink - sort of a rose but orangish rather than purplish 22-24 Capucine ?? capucine - a orange-brown, in practise often a dark orange Capucine - a brown like the monk's robes - dark reddish brown??? 25-27 Carance 73 ? Matt Wine 28-30 Amarante 107 ? Matt WWI Purple amaranth - red-violet, but perhaps more medium than dark Amaranth - a dark purple-red, but French Napoleonic usage may have been different 31 Chamois 103 Matt cream Chamois - brownish yellow - the thing you dry your car with From: COL Bill Gray Subject: Re: Napoleons Battles French Cavalry Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 12:34:43 GMT I can answer this one from memory (and I have the Prussian OB at Auerstadt, so I can pull that tonight). First, elites were within a regiment. Each regiment had a single elite company, normally marked by the wearing of red epauletes and distinctive head gear, a busby with red plume for Hussars and Chasseurs a Cheval, a bearskin with red plume for Dragoons. These elite companies were in effect the "grenadier" companies of the mounted regiments. Even in those Chasseur units that went entirely with the shako, the red plume and epaulets remained. Second, using Chasseurs at both Auerstadt and Eylau shouldn't be problem with wear-out dates and the like, and the fact that the different patterns being authorized during this time were not that dissimilar. The big difference will be for Marengo. I have Minifigs French Revolution and several uniform books on the period and its quite likely that at Marengo you are talking about a hussar style dolman and pants with a bicorne, mirlaton, Tarleton or shako as head gear. One note on the Prussians, I have the OB per Der Krieg von 1806 und 1807 by the German General Staff, but be advised that the Prussians had a very nasty habit of forming ad hoc formations the moment anyone in authority sneezed. I seem to recall that perhaps except for the Guard, you might have actually had a lot of the light stuff in an Advanced Guard, the heavy horse combined and a lot of regiments broken down and attached to infantry formations. I'll check. Bill Gray HMGS East In article , "moses" wrote: > Hi all, > I'm trying to go through a list that I made to create the forces > required for the battles of Marengo, Auerstadt and Eylau. Because I'm > stretching the period over a fairly long time frame, I'm 'cheating' by using > some of the early cavalry in the later battles. I can justify this in my > mind by saying 'who really cares anyway' and 'the uniform COULD have been > delayed in being issued'. > I guess my question to the NG is: What would the Chasseurs have worn at > Auerstadt, and would it be overly different from the uniform worn at Eylau? > I think I can answer that myself, as I THINK the new uniform was an 1806 > issue, and so, you can go either way. Auerstadt Chasseurs COULD have been > issued with the 'Imperial' Uniform, or possibly have retained the earlier > uniform. If I go with 'Imperial' Chasseurs, how did the 'elite chasseurs' > fit within the regiment? Were they elites WITHIN a Regiment (as in one or > two figures to the Brigade) or were entire regiments considered 'elite' (one > or two STANDS to a Brigade). I think, but don't know, that they were elites > WITHIN their own regiment. Clarrification of this would help me. I will > end up with 3 Brigades of Chassuers, one of 16 and two of 12 Figures each. >