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Offline Argonor

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'Sharpe's Battle' Question
« on: March 12, 2019, 05:56:59 PM »
I am just now watching 'Sharpe's Battle', and I find myself baffled by the 'French' uniforms on display.

Are they purely fantasy, or is my knowledge of Napoleonic uniforms just lacking?

Loup's uniform looks as it could be 1er Hussards, but the rest I have no clue about.
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Offline Adam

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Re: 'Sharpe's Battle' Question
« Reply #1 on: March 12, 2019, 06:32:41 PM »
It's been absolutely yonks since I read the book, but I believe Loup had a fictional force of cavalry and infantry with grey uniforms.

Edit: yeah, grey uniforms:

https://sharpe.fandom.com/wiki/Guy_Loup
« Last Edit: March 12, 2019, 06:35:01 PM by Adam »

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Re: 'Sharpe's Battle' Question
« Reply #2 on: March 13, 2019, 11:35:46 AM »
OK, thanks, I never read the books.

I guess that green uniformed Irish unit is also pure fiction, then...

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Re: 'Sharpe's Battle' Question
« Reply #3 on: March 14, 2019, 12:09:14 PM »
Or they are these Irish Legion?

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Re: 'Sharpe's Battle' Question
« Reply #4 on: March 14, 2019, 12:33:53 PM »
Or they are these Irish Legion?

Not quite, although the name is similar - those in the Sharpe story are part of the British forces (although they defect to the French), and wear bicornes (I don't remember the exact other details of their uniforms, I was busy looking at the weird Frenchies).

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Re: 'Sharpe's Battle' Question
« Reply #5 on: March 14, 2019, 12:42:52 PM »
The 'Loup Legion' in the Sharpe books are a completely fictitious anti-partisan unit.

The Irish Legion of the French Army was very much a real unit.  See here: http://www.jemimafawr.co.uk/2018/11/02/some-napoleonic-french-foreign-legions-ab-figures-15mm/

The 'Irish Legion' or whatever it was called in Sharpe was a fictitious unit of the Spanish Army.  For the TV series they used some spare 1790s Russian uniforms that they presumably found in the Ukrainian film studio's store.  There were some nominally Irish regiments in the Spanish Army, however, such as the 'Irlanda', 'Hibernia' and 'Ultonia' Regiments.
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Re: 'Sharpe's Battle' Question
« Reply #6 on: March 14, 2019, 11:00:29 PM »
I thought there was something familiar about those green uniforms  lol

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Re: 'Sharpe's Battle' Question
« Reply #7 on: March 15, 2019, 08:29:48 PM »
I thought there was something familiar about those green uniforms  lol

Yeah  ;) The orange & black cockades were a giveaway.