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"As fierce and terrible fellows as I ever saw", remarked a British eye-witness about the Grenadiers de France at the Battle of Minden in 1759.
I obtained quite a few miscellaneous Front Rank grenadier figures in a bulk second-hand deal, so it was only natural to paint them up as this very distinctive unit.
Since making these flags, however, I have produced new ones based on the GMB Designs flags used by most of my other units. These later flags are portrayed in the photos above. |
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The
four brigades of Grenadiers de France were composed of the former
elite companies from several disbanded regiments. Their blue and
red uniforms with the black bearskin hats (as shown in the 
My
first version of the Grenadiers de France flags was scanned from
Terry Wise's excellent Military Flags of the World 1618-1900
(see right). I added the silk texturing myself, and also made
up the conjectural white colonel's flag.