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Thursday, 13 January 2011

Recently painted No8 Napoleonic Portuguese Tomar Milita

Another of Posties Napoleonic units I painted late last year, are the Portuguese Tomar Militia. Once again they are made by Essex Miniatures and are based up to Posties version of GdB. Postie has given them a normal infantry flag, but we're not really sure what their flag would have looked like, if they carried one at all.
I struggled to find any info on this unit all that I could find was that they were raised mainly for garrison duty but fought in the Battle of Bussaco on 27th September 1810.
They were in the General Leith's 5th Division, in Spry's Portuguese Brigade along with two battalions each from the Portuguese 3rd and 5th line regiments. They did not equip themselves very well during the battle, as they ran off in disorder.





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9 comments:

  1. The Angry Lurker13 January 2011 at 13:19

    Come on enough is enough of posting other peoples figures, have you no shame.lol

    http://theangrylurker.blogspot.com/

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  2. Ray Rousell13 January 2011 at 13:29

    No, I have no shame what so ever, unilke yourself you ginger yeti!!

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  3. Suciô Sanchez13 January 2011 at 17:26

    Pretty colorful. I'd assumed that the Portuguese units were all in brown.

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  4. Ray Rousell13 January 2011 at 18:31

    Brown was the colour of the Cacadors, (the light infantry), the Portuguese line wore blue coats most of the time.

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  5. Anonymous7 March 2011 at 15:10

    Where did you find the uniform information on the Tomar Militia BN?

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  6. Ray Rousell7 March 2011 at 16:18

    There's a picture of them in Uniforms of the Peninsular War, 1807 - 1814 (Blandford Colour Series) by Philip J. Haythornthwaite.
    Here's an ebook link. It's No 11 on the list
    http://www.ebooksx.com/Blandford-Colour-in-title.html

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  7. Anonymous8 April 2011 at 23:52

    Ah yea we spoke off line about that book didn't we. It's a shame the colour in the book is totally wrong. I have a 2009 Portuguese infantry book in Portuguese and English and it confirms that apart from Alorna's Light Legion in the sky blue , similar to the cavalry, and the cacadores in their brown and the LLL in their British supplied rifle green that no uniformed regiments of the Portuguese army wore green. They all wore Steel Blue - a very dark blue colour, much darker than normally painted or printed in uniform books. Drew

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  8. Phil20 October 2013 at 07:58

    I don't have this unit! Ok, I go back to my brushes, they are very nice, great paintwork and great colors!
    Best,
    Phil.

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