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26 kwi 2005 · See the Painting Guide for the Eighty Years War for Dutch. English troops serving in the Netherlands wore uniforms (Heath, 1997). Most often with red or blue cassocks.
- Imperialist Painting Guide for the Thirty Years War
Roland Davis painted the vast bulk of my Thirty Years War...
- Imperialist Painting Guide for the Thirty Years War
Austrians also wore red and yellow coats. Bavarian and Catholic League units wore light blue or red coats and sometimes Imperial colors. The almost always wore bright red stockings. Pappenheim's cuirasiers wore all black armor with polish type helmets, reputed to be pistol proof.
6 sie 2019 · Roland Davis painted the vast bulk of my Thirty Years War armies. The cuirassiers, mounted arquebusiers, dragoons, and most of the generals, artillery and horsemen are his. Ian Galley painted the shot, croats, and one of the cannon stands.
PROTESTANT UNIFORMS OF THE THIRTY YEARS WAR. Having already covered the turncoat Protestants (Saxony and Denmark), I now turn attention to the remaining Protestant protagonists. Protestants tended to dress more soberly than their Catholic opponants and tended to be more uniformly dressed.
23 kwi 2022 · This book charts this progression, illustrating and explaining the forces of the key Catholic armies, while exploring the weapons, organization, tactics, and colourful uniforms used by the infantry and artillery.
The following information and theories on uniforms have been culled from my reading about the war, with the most useful sources in the bibiography. Osprey has several books that cover specific armies. Armies so covered are given limited treatment in this article.
The Thirty Years' War forms part of what historians sometimes call "The General Crisis" of the mid-17th century. This term refers to a period of sustained conflict and unrest in areas ranging from Ming China to the British Isles, Tsarist Russia and the Holy Roman Empire.
