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The Napoleonic Wars was a series of wars lasting from 1803 to 1815. Spain was just one of the many countries which resisted the expansion of the French Empire under Napoleon I . The general population fought as guerrillas , preventing the occupying French forces from obtaining supplies or safe passage.
Horse carabinier's uniform before 1809 Horse carabinier as of 1809. The corps of Carabiniers was a group of heavy cavalry originally created by Louis XIV.From 1791 to 1809, their uniforms consisted of a blue coat with a blue piped red collar, red cuffs, lapels and turnbacks with white grenades, red epaulettes with edged white straps, red cuff flaps for the 1st Regiment, blue piped red for the ...
The Cavalry Regiment El Rey is Spain's oldest cavalry regiment, founded in 1538 under the reign of King Charles I of Spain, and as such bore the title The King's in the Spanish Army. During the Napoleonic era it was considered as one of the best Spanish regiments and it distinguished itself during the Spanish War of Independence, frequently ...
Roman army: 50 AD 200 AD Combat reenactment, living history, TV and film work, education work, research Historia Normannis UK France USA: Middle Ages: 1100 1215 Combat reenactment, living history Historical Maritime Society UK: Modern: 1805 AD 1945 AD Combat reenactment, living history, naval The Medieval Siege Society UK: War of the Roses ...
During this final period of elaborate and colourful traditional uniforms, the shako varied widely from army to army in height, colour, trim and profile. Amongst the most distinctive of these were the high Napoleonic shako (kiver) worn by the Russian Imperial Guard [35] and the low streamlined model (ros) of the Spanish Army. The Swiss version ...
Pages in category "Spanish military uniforms" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. ... Spanish uniforms of the Napoleonic Wars
2nd Army: When Blake's Army of Valencia, now known as the Army of Murcia, [19] surrendered to Marshal Suchet at Valencia, at the beginning of 1812, it comprised 28,000 men. Of these, some 7,000 were able to escape capture, and by June 1813, its new commander, General Elio , had over 30,600 troops under him.
The Spanish Army emerged from the Napoleonic Wars devastated as a result of years of destructive conflict during the Peninsular War. [11] A series of conflicts in Spain's American colonies with the aim of political independence from the Spanish Empire , which had broken out in 1808, led to the loss of a majority of these colonial possessions by ...