More Perry French for the Egyptian Campaign

[Arthur]

Casualties, skirmishers & mounted colonels :








http://www.perry-miniatures.com/index.php

[Aaron]

Ooh, I can see those mounted colonels and possibly the skirmishers in bicornes in 1796-ish Italy.

[italwars]

it appear that the habit veste is peculiar, for these period, to Egyptian Campaign...but maybe the mounted officers could do for Italy..in my case for Vendée

[WillieB]

Just what the doctor ordered! Mixed with the excellent Eureka figures my Napoleon in Egypt project is becoming more and more feasible.
But first another 200 Indian Mutiny and 4 regts of Swedes for the GNW.

[Arthur]

If you care about such things, the Eureka French revolutionary wars figures would only be appropriate for the first five months or so of the campaign : the uniforms they are wearing were used from July to about November 1798, when they were replaced with new cotton short-tailed coats more suited to the Egyptian climate.

The fact that most period paintings depict French troops in Egypt in their traditional habit à la française is mostly due to the painters' desire to make sure that what was depicted on the canvas was intelligible for the viewer - i.e they depicted French soldiers in the uniforms French people were used to seeing at home. Also bear in mind that these paintings were done in France by artists who had usually not been to Egypt themselves and were not necessarily familiar with the uniforms worn there (though they often tried to do their homework as best as they could by interviewing veterans).