A quick question for the cognoscenti, please?

At the Battle of Almanzar in 1707 the Duke of Berwick scored a notable victory over the allies. He apparently put his cavalry either side of the infantry , one wing French, the other Spanish.

Given we have Spanish pro-Bourbon troops, would it simply be a case of painting the French Line cavalry in suitable colours to use them for Spanish cavalry please? Or would another set be better?

Many thanks

Graham

Dear Graham,

I don't have any answers for you but have a couple of suggestions.

- There is the book published by Helion, which you may have already.

- This fellow has an excellent blog:
https://spanishleadpainting.blogspot.com
He is mainly focussed on the Thirty Years' War through to Grand Alliance, but he may well have info. on the Spanish War of Succession if you ask?

- Similarly, I bet that Richard at Kronoskaf has some info.?

Happy searching,
James

Thank you sir! I don’t have the Helios book but I shall look it up.
Graham

Dear Graham,

The Helion book is Mugnai's "The Armies of Spain 1659-1688", so nominally earlier, but his books on the Ottoman and Hapsburg armies have information beyond the dates on the cover.

This excellent post has more leads for you in the bibliography at the end:
https://spanishleadpainting.blogspot.com/2022/01/wargaming-and-painting-late-spanish.html

Best wishes, James

have a look here http://www.minairons.cat/
free downloads of uniforms etc for war in Catalonia
also this firm makes several useful figures for 1st Penisular War
hope this helps
cheers Old John

Thank you John
That looks a remarkably useful resource.

Thank you James!