tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8037582458537250032.post995619541094799553..comments2024-03-11T08:48:02.517-04:00Comments on The League of Augsburg: Barry's little Scanian War project part 2 - WHAT TO WEAR?quindiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14194306105013871853noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8037582458537250032.post-38086678601663527192014-10-17T09:49:30.044-04:002014-10-17T09:49:30.044-04:00Anonymous, it would be good to know who you are! I...Anonymous, it would be good to know who you are! Is this Tacitus?<br />cheersaugsburgerobersthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07668623413869707906noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8037582458537250032.post-87596513070870790262014-10-17T03:17:29.227-04:002014-10-17T03:17:29.227-04:00Interesting comment on the Danes valuing Swedish b...Interesting comment on the Danes valuing Swedish buff coats. T. Snorrason wrote essentially the same thing regarding Danish buff coats during the WSS. Do you have a source or sources that support this?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8037582458537250032.post-2233806514262483122014-10-16T16:07:57.771-04:002014-10-16T16:07:57.771-04:00Glad you liked my post Dalauppror. I return the fa...Glad you liked my post Dalauppror. I return the favour by complimenting you and your friends for really interesting and inspiering blogs based on Swedish history.<br /><br />There seems to have been quite a few units with wierd uniforms. Un-uniformed militia and new recuits, units wearing several different uniforms. (Amalgamed units and/or several different versions of the uniform.) Uniforms of undyed cloth exept on the cufs, which tended to be in the ordinary colour...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8037582458537250032.post-12291910698647772802014-10-16T06:14:46.965-04:002014-10-16T06:14:46.965-04:00The rest of the series flows out from this start. ...The rest of the series flows out from this start. I will present ways of quickly painting and fielding units, ways of dressing the bases for different seasons and feature some of the units. There are already 8 blog posts in the series ready to appear and others will be constructed to compliment.augsburgerobersthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07668623413869707906noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8037582458537250032.post-70189342630024175902014-10-15T16:33:30.329-04:002014-10-15T16:33:30.329-04:00Interesting readings guys.Interesting readings guys.Engelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11815952011304493883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8037582458537250032.post-16473892341255452642014-10-15T14:10:01.333-04:002014-10-15T14:10:01.333-04:00Very interesting blogpost Barry and good comments ...Very interesting blogpost Barry and good comments by Sören and Anonymous<br /><br />Looking forward to read more.<br /><br />Best regards MichaelDalaupprorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05292614404943521842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8037582458537250032.post-76514946616192960212014-10-15T12:56:18.290-04:002014-10-15T12:56:18.290-04:00From what I have read for us Swedes in the Scanian...From what I have read for us Swedes in the Scanian War:<br /><br />Headgear: It could be either kapurs or an slouch-hat that could be black or sometimes brown. All variants could occur in the same regiment, but headgear was usually uniform within companies. As far as I know was the kapurs only a part of the uniform for privates and NCO-s.<br /><br />Coats & waistcoats: I have not found any information at all about cut or shape and (barely enough) information about colours of the coats and waistcoats.<br /><br />Equipment: As far as I know was match-locks and wheel locks used long after the Scanian War, at least in to the 1680s in thecase of the fuse-lock. The twelve apostles is never mentioned in my sources for the Swedes, but my guess is that newly raised reserve units and peasant militias could be equipped with the twelve apostles as they might have been armed with outdated equipment from the arsenals. The bayonet showed up in Sweden in the Great Northern War and first among grenadiers.<br /><br />Cavalry: I guess the cavalry-boots became black for everyone in the 1680s. The usage of armour and buffcoats varied among Swedish cavalry in the Scanian War. While the goal seem to have been all units in armour and buffcoat, reality was something different. Elites like Livgardet till Häst seems to have had the full equipment, regular cavalry, like Småland's seems to have had buffcoats and in addition armour foras many troopers, as possible. The reinforcement cavalry units like Adelsfanans dubblering i Svealand had an cobbeled together look to them as they often were wearing ordinary uniform coats because of the severe shortage of buffcoats and armour in these units. Same was true with weapons, the more high-ranking the regiment.<br /><br />Don't know about the colour of pistol holsters, altough I think I remember a comment where a cavalry regiment has blue pistol holsters... <br /><br />And I'm even less sure on the part of dragoon pistols. I think I remember something about a unit of dragoons having pistols. Bohus Dragonregemente I think it was... Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8037582458537250032.post-1716238495294077902014-10-15T02:31:09.865-04:002014-10-15T02:31:09.865-04:00Great article Barry - I think the Vuksic & Grb...Great article Barry - I think the Vuksic & Grbasic plate is very close to what they'd actually have looked like. Two things adding to the plate's credibility; first the hat is garnished with a little bundle of yellow hay. That was the Swedish field sign at Lund. Secondly the elk hide buff coat (Kyller in Swedish). These might be a Swedish cavalry inheritance from the days of great feats under Gustavus Adolphus, but either way the thick and durable quality of the Elk hide, which the Swedes have a natural access too, gave them a distinct advantage in combat, as the coat would protect against cavalry melee cuts, and absorb splinters and fragments from gun fire deflected on the breast plate. The Danes were so impressed by the effectiveness and quality of the Swedish buff coats (no Elks in Denmark), that they relished any chance to plunder a dead or dying swede of his precious coat. So both side wore these, but for many of the Danes it was "borrowed" equipment. I'll return soon with pictures from Copenhagen, where the Royal Danish Army Museum have one of these priced coats, captured from an unfortunate Swede at Lund, on display. Black Powderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04811405795071310375noreply@blogger.com