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    Rainbow warriors —Richie Dulin
   Ahoy, Following my Spanish, Austrian and Brunswicker infantry (green, dark grey and black respectively), I'm wondering what other colours could be used for vaguely accurate 18th-19th century soldiers. I think that light grey (Belgian IIRC) and white (...) (21 years ago, 4-Feb-03, to lugnet.pirates)
   
        Re: Rainbow warriors —Pedro Silva
     (...) #1 - Portuguese "Caçadores" (Chasseurs) in the napoleonic wars, brown uniform (lots of possible colour variations for trousers). The Contemporary Portuguese army featured such a vast number of colour combinations that you're likely to find (...) (21 years ago, 4-Feb-03, to lugnet.pirates)
    
         Re: Rainbow warriors —Richie Dulin
     (...) Thanks for those. It looks like I'll have to find some more horses and saddles, as all the unusual uniforms seem to worn by cavalry units. (...) Good suggestion! I've subsequently found a pic of yellow coated Spanish cavalry as well. Cheers (...) (21 years ago, 5-Feb-03, to lugnet.pirates)
   
        Re: Rainbow warriors —Kenneth Tam
     G'day, If I'm not mistaken -- and keep in mind that I probably am -- the Portugese wore Brown coats and white trousers. Yellow... what's starting to cross my mind are Sicilian or Piedmontese... one of those Italian or Papal states that had their (...) (21 years ago, 4-Feb-03, to lugnet.pirates)
    
         Re: Rainbow warriors —Richie Dulin
     (...) I've found some pics of 18th century Hungarians in white (with tricorns, too). (Cavalry, unfortunately :-( ) (...) Anything's *possible* :-) (...) Yes, please! (...) Absolutely! Richie (21 years ago, 5-Feb-03, to lugnet.pirates)
   
        Re: Rainbow warriors —Bruce Schlickbernd
     (...) If you search long and hard enough, you'll probably be able to find any conceivable color combination in Napoleonic warfare uniforms, sometimes all within the same army (the French had dark blue, light blue, white, red, dark green, black, (...) (21 years ago, 5-Feb-03, to lugnet.pirates)
   
        Re: Rainbow warriors —Sebastian Persson-Pyykkö
   Hi! (...) Since I'm from Sweden i thought that blue and yellow uniforms with the three-pointed hats (in brown & black) would seem very nice (21 years ago, 8-Feb-03, to lugnet.pirates)
 

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