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squadrons totaLing 1584 on 3 March; 200 took part insuccessful defense of Karlstadt against Bosnian Turks;strength was 657 in June and some French personnelallowed in to raise effective strength; went to Francein October and disbanded 1276 strong in Lyon on 25November L813.Uniform: sky blue dolman, buff collar and cuffs;light grey-blue pelisse edged with black lambskin;pewter buttons; white cords; crimson and white sash;light grey-blue breeches with white cords; hussarboots edged white; pantaloons strapped with blackleather; black shako with white metal diamond plateand chin scales, pompon ofsquadron colour; whitebelts; black leather sabretache with silver crownedeagle and letters 'I H C' (ler Hussards Croates) below;light grey-blue cloak; sheepskin housingsedged buff,light grey-blue valise.Pionniers CroatesBattalion of Croatian Pioneers. Raised late 1813 frompersonnel of disbanded Croatian Hussars; sent toBourges; disbanded 1814.Uniform: same as 'Pionniers Blancs'.Pandours de DalmatieDalmatian Pandours. Also called Pandours of Ragusa(Dubrovnik). Organized 17 March 1810; one battalionofnine companies, each company having from 36 to48 Pandours including two drummers; guarded thesouth-eastern border, escorted couriers, watched'Turkish' caravans from Bosnia; disbanded 25November 1813.Uniform: according to an order 17 March 1810, itwas 'red dolman, laced silver, edged with sheepskin forthe Pandours; red jacket; blue pantaloon; red turban;opanque.' White cloaks for private Pandours, red fornon-commissioned officers. Fieffe adds that this waslater altered to blue dolman, red cloak for all and aFrench-style shako. They were armed with 'regulationmuskets, pistols, kandjars in the shape of huntingknives, cartridge box at the waist belt; sabre and pistolsfor the officers'. Officers were to wear the sameuniform with their troops with rank badges as in thelight cavalry and have hussar boots. But they were alsoallowed to wear the blue French-style coat with redturnbacks and red pantaloons, silver buttons andepaulettes.HollandHolland was absorbed into the French Empire on 9July 1810. As a result, the 27,000 strong Dutch armywas amalgamated into the French Army and adoptedFrench uniforms. There were, however, a few distinctcorps.Officer, Isembourg Regiment (German), c. 1810. Miniature. J.Ostiguy collection. Ottawa.Bataillons Expeditionaires des IndesExpeditionary Battalions of the Indies. Created 6September 1810; two Companies of ExpeditionaryArtillery also created in September; sent towards Javain February 1811 but pan offorce captured in Mayafter a fight near Tamatave, Madagascar, others heldMahe in the Seychelles and managed to get back toBrest and incorporated into other units.Uniform: same as French line infantry andartillery.Regiment de WalcherenWalcheren Regiment. Formed with refractoryconscripts created 24 January 1811 to serve inWalcheren Island, off the Dutch coast; first twobattalions had mostly Belgians, the 3rd Spaniards;became 131st of the Line in 1812; disbanded 1814.Uniform: blue coat with blue piped red collar,cuffs, lapels and shoulder straps, white turnbacks; brassbuttons; white waistcoat and breeches; black shakowith brass diamond plate and chin scales. The 3rd'Spanish' Battalion had a different coat: blue with bluepiped yellow lapels, shoulder straps and cuff flaps, redpiped yellow collar and cuffs, white turnbacks, brassbuttons. Standard infantry uniform adopted from1812.Garde Soldee d'AmsterdamAmsterdam Paid Guard. Created 22 October 1811;two battalions of four companies each and a squadronof cavalry; dissolved in late 1813.Uniform: blue coat, pink collar, cuffs and lapels,pewter buttons; white waistcoat and breeches. Theinfantry had the same style and cut as the line infantry.The cavalry wore the same colours but the uniformwas in the style of the Chasseurs 11 cheval.Garde Soldee de RotterdamRotterdam Paid Guard. Created 16 ovember 1811;one infantry company; dissolved late 1813.Uniform: blue coat, white collar, cuffs and lapels,pewter buttons; white waistcoat and breeches in thesame style and cut as the line infantry.Bataillon de PionniersPioneer Battalion. Organized with Dutch personnel inJanuary 1814; disbanded later in the year.niform: probably the same as the 'PionniersBlancs'.Other NationalitiesBataillons EtrangersForeign Battalions. Two battalions created on 23March 1802; 3rd battalion in 1809; recruited fromvarious foreign deserters and used mostly for garrisonand coast guard duties; disbanded 1814.Uniform: according to Elting and Kniitel, the 3rdhad in c. 1810-1811 a sky blue coat, sky blue pipedblue cuffs. lapels, turnbacks and shoulder straps, bluecollar and cuff flaps; pewter buttons; white waistcoatand breeches; black gaiters; shako \vith white metalplate and chin scales, sky blue pompon.Legion IrlandaiseIrish Legion. Created 31 August 1803; one battalion;raised to two then three in 1809 and renamed'Regiment irlandais' but recruited from all nations;became '3e regiment etranger' (3rd ForeignRegiment) on 25 ovember 1811; only 65 Irishmenleft by 1813; reorganized as 7th Foreign Regiment on2 May 1815; disbanded 29 September 1815.niforms: light infantry style green coatee, yellowcollar, pointed cuffs, lapels, turnbacks and piping;brass buttons; white waistcoat and pantaloons; blackgaiters with red (carabiniers) or green trim. Carabinierhad red shako cords and plume, red epaulettes, redgrenade on tum back. Voltigeurs had green shakocords, green tipped yellow plume, green epauletteswith yellow crescent, green horn on turn back.Chasseurs had white shako cords, green plume, greenpiped yellow shoulder straps, green horn on turnbacks.From 1810, green piped yellow lapels, cuffs,turnbacks, yeLlow cuff flaps; pewter buttons; greenwaistcoat and breeches. Model 1812 coatee apparentlyissued in 1813; sky blue coatee with red collar, lapelsand cuff flaps in 1814-15. Drummers: unknown,possibly as the men with white lace edging facings andyellow wings.Guides-Interpretes de I'Armee d'AngleterreGuides-Interpreters of the Army of England.Company of light dragoons created 3 October 1803,of 117 men including two drummers and five officers,recruited especially from Irish volunteers in Paris andChannel ports who could speak and translate English.Attached to HQ during the Boulogne episode;transferred to Poland and became part ofMarshalBerthier's Guides in 1806.Uniform: 'green coatee, red lining, scarlet lapels,cuffs and turnbacks, white hussar style buttons, whitecloth waistcoat, white buttons, white breeches,American style boots, black bronzed spurs' accordingto the decree creating it. Bicorn laced white with redplume; green housings laced white. Whiteaccoutrements, dragoon musket and sabre.Pionniers Blancs/Pionniers VolontairesEtrangersWhite Pioneers. Regiment created IS February 1806;two battalions of four companies each recruited fromAustrian prisoners; reorganized as a Foreign VolunteerPioneers Battalion of five companies on 1 September1810, sixth company formed at Bourges in February1811 and two more in September from capturedfollowers of Schill and the Duke of Brunswick whichmust have made most reluctant 'volunteers'; remnantsof unit incorporated into 3rd Foreign ColonialBattalion in August 1814.Uniform: all light grey-blue single-breasted roundjacket, waistcoat, pantaloons, cloth buttons, foragecap, shoft gaiters and greatcoat with brass buttons;bicorn hat and later shako. Privates only had tools,only NCOs were armed with dragoon musket andbayonet.Legion PortugaisePortuguese Legion. Created 16 January 1808 andorganized from 18 May 1808 with part of disbanded130 Foreign 71·oopsFOl'eign Troops 131