Austrian Specialist Troops of the Napoleonic Wars by Philip Haythornthwaite

Author:Philip Haythornthwaite
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Austrian Specialist Troops of the Napoleonic Wars
ISBN: 9781780967592
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
Published: 2012-04-05T04:00:00+00:00

Uniforms

The pontooneers wore a uniform in basically the engineer colouring, but with their own distinctive features. The principal uniform colour was described as ‘cornflower blue’, and appears in early pictures of this period as a lightish shade; for officers it was the usual long-tailed coat with red facings and waistcoat and white breeches, with a bicorn hat. The other ranks wore the same colouring, but though an infantry-style coat is depicted by some contemporary sources, the distinctive pontooneer uniform consisted of a tailless jacket and ‘round hat’, as described in the text for Plate C.

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