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May 20 11 1:02 PM

Sounds like a reasonable mix.

One point - the "light" coats would be off-white/cream/light grey, rather than brown, but there's no reason not to include some "brown jobs" in there as well. As I said, I suspect this regiment - like so many other Continental units in the mid-war years - was a mish-mash of clothing, with individual companies looking fairly uniform, but not too much colour co-ordination or "accessorising" above company level.

There is a wargaming mantra that goes "we don't really know what they wore, so you can give them anything and nobody can argue." Whilst not completely untrue, there are in fact quite a few instances where we do know exactly what a specific unit was wearing during a particular campaign, because people documented it. That said, this unit has more than a fair share of "grey areas" so there is plenty of latitude - and ultimately they are your figures, so have them how you want. Most gamers like to make their less-documented Continental units "generic" so they can be whoever they want them to be in any given game and simply have an alternative command/flag base ready to swap over.