Recently Painted No 49 NYW Huguenot regt de la Meloniere

Between March and June 1689, three Huguenot battalions of foot were raised. Isaac de Monceau de la Meloniere had been the colonel of the French regiment Anjou in Louis XIV’s army, but in 1686 he was committed to the Bastille for his refusal to disavow his faith. Meloniere contrived to escape to the United Province, where William of Orange  made him a Colonel in the Dutch army and his personal Aide-de-camp. In 1689, he transferred into the British Army as the Colonel of one of the new Huguenot battalions. Meloniere commanded his unit throughout the war in Ireland and Flanders and was raised to the rank of Major-General.

Once again the figures are from Essex Miniatures and the bases are from Warbases.  Earlier this month I posted the flags for this unit, here.
At the Battle of the Boyne, it is believed that the unit had no pike element, but I've included them for my unit as they fought in the later battles in Flanders and may well have been issued with pikes by that time.

NYW - Huguenots Flags revamped

There's been a lot of discussion recently on Huguenots flags and uniforms on the League of Augsburg Forum . Clarence is or has made a big selection of flags for the Battle of The Boyne, including Danish, Dutch, English, Irish and Huguenots. 

In my first ever blog post I made some flags to represent the three Huguenots regiments that fought at the Boyne.  I've now updated these flags, here, adding a Huguenot cross to all flags. Barry and Clarence have been searching the web for coats of arms and heraldry to make their Huguenots flags, what these regiments really carried has been lost to history.

So trying not to step on their toes (too much) I've gone with a more simplistic view. When searching the web for Huguenots flags from earlier periods they seems to be a lot of strips, so I've gone with that effect, trying to make them look both French and English.

I've just finished painting up the three regiments myself and put some of these flags on the figures, so look out for them in a future post.

The green flags belong to du Cambon, the black belong to de Meloniere and the blue are le Caillemotte

du Cambon

de Meloniere

le Caillemotte

Huguenots Flags - My First Post!

Welcome to my blog and to my first ever post. My blog will mainly consist of posts about Wargaming and Wargame related items. Hope you all enjoy it!!!

Recently on the League of Augsburg site, there were some figures for sale that Barry painted up for the Battle of the Boyne. As there's no info on the three Huguenot regt's that fought he made up some flags, so I thought I'd have a go too. The flags are LeCaillemotte regiment in blue, de Meloniere regiment  in black & du Cambon regiment in green. They're not the best flags you'll ever see, but feel free to copy them if you want.

I have made some other flags that are not commercially available for the period that I'll post at a later date.