From: pmyers@unlgrad1.unl.edu (Phillip S. Myers)
Subject: Re: Napoleonic Horse Furniture Colors
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 96 11:37:02 CDT

greg kildare (kildare@rand.org) wrote:
: With all the money I've spent on Osprey books, I would have thought that 
: finding the color of horse blankets and fringe for officers would be a 
: snap. . . It is not.  If anyone knows the color of horse blankets for 
: British, French and Dutch-Belgian Generals of Brigade and above, I'd 
: appreciate a reply.
: Thanx
: Greg Kildare
: RAND Corporation

Know what you mean about hard to find!
For French generals I've seen red (funcken) and maroon/purple sorta 
thing (Haythornthwaite-Blandford press) both with gold lace, or you 
could get into the fun leaopard skin sorta stuff and get creative.  
For the Brits Haythornthwaite shows (Unif of the nap wars) ablack 
sheepskin edged red, and in Unif of the pen wars shows an 1813 Hussar 
general with a leopard skin For the D-Bs? I haven't the foggiest!
Good luck
     Phil

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From: jcg@ElSegundoCA.ATTGIS.COM (Jonathan Gingerich)
Subject: Re: Napoleonic Horse Furniture Colors
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 96 12:29:31 CDT

The best I could come up with was: Pericoli, 1815 The Armies at Waterloo (1973)

French:
Marshals - purplish crimsom with double gold lace and heavy fringe, doubled holsters,
gilt stirrups and bit bosses, no devices on saddlecloth
Generals (Div & Brig) - scarlet with double gold lace, black stirrups, silver bit
bosses, no devices on saddlecloth

British:
Royal blue with double gold braid, crowned royal cypher in corner

Netherlands:
Best I could come up with was Haythornthwaite's reference to Tradition (London)
#46,47,48,&60

Jon.