Ebor miniatures WSS Spanish Dragoons

[Arthur]

My pleasure, Carlos  

Nearly a year ago, I started a thread here on the LAF on the subject of WSS Spanish infantry uniforms. It features a little extra information and more links kindly provided by some Spanish contributors :  

http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=51293.0

The Researching & Dragona plates by Emilio Marin were my entry point when I began investigating the period. Most of them can be found on the Alfons Canovas blog via the link below. The scans feature oddly washed out colours - I have much brighter versions of some of these with far superior resolution :

http://miniaturasmilitaresalfonscanovas.blogspot.fr/2012/02/almansa-la-batalla-1707.html

I believe the Marin plates on the Spanish army are substantially correct, though I do not have the accompanying text and therefore don't know which sources were used as a basis for the uniforms. I would treat the plates on the other nations with more caution, though : the ones on French troops in particular feature more than their share of egregious mistakes.

Anyone interested in the Catalan army should have a look at the website below. The text in entirely in Catalan, but I was quite pleasantly surprised to realise I could get the gist of most of it without having ever learned the language !

http://www.guerradesuccessio.cat/

 

[Juan]

Again, thank you a lot for this new amount of information.
I remember to have had some of the old "Researching & Dragona" magazines and the information they had about the Spanish army was, generally, good.
This book about the Spanish army in the Nine Years War can be also useful: "The Spanish Armies in the War of the League of Augsburg 1688-1697" by Gian Carlo Boeri, José Luis Mirecki y José Palau. Very nice, and many of the plates go into the XVIII Century.

About the web of the Catalans in the WSS, it is nice and interesting; they are taking a lot of work writing "their" History...

[Arthur]

I have the Boeri book on the Spanish armies of the Nine years War and it is indeed excellent, so good in fact that it makes you wish there was a work of similar quality on Spanish troops during the WSS !

In the meantime, I've just remembered where I found better quality versions of the Emilio Marin plates - it's the Almansa reenactment FB page for those who are interested.