Miscellaneous
The flag of the Regiment
Histofig plate
The Regiment at Malo-Jaroslavets (Russia
1812)
regiment joseph napoleon
This Regiment is a Spanish unit that fought for Napoleon during the
invasion of Russia in 1812. It was composed of men from the Division del
Norte of general La Romana, which could not leave Denmark, and were not
carried back to Spain by the English ships in 1808. In 1812, two
battalions of the regiment were in the I Corps (Davout) and another two
in the IV Corps (Eugene de Beauharnais). These last fought in the battle
of Malo-Jaroslavets.
The uniform was white with green distinctives. For the figures I have
used the 1/72 ESCI french infantry figures, with the colour
scheme that appears in the
Histofig and
Preussische Militärgeschichte - Historischer Service sites..
The flag was more dificult to find. After receiving help from several
groups of YAHOO, I concluded that the Regiment did not have an eagle but
used a tricolor flag (1809-pattern) with the arms of Jose
Bonaparte. The flag was therefore made by modifying a 1809-pattern
french flag found in
Warflag and adding
the heraldic arms of Jose Bonaparte, taken from the flag of the
Regimiento de Malaga (an unit of the Spanish Jospeh's Army). All flag
work was made with PaintShop.
I am very grateful to Mark Gilby for
his help in the english translation
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