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3rd Swiss Regiment -1806

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There are plenty of iconography which evidence the use of red collars for this regiment and also the use of black on the collar.

 

The coat was red with black lapels and cuffs,white turnbacks and collar as described above.

 

Vertical pockets closed by three large buttons.

 

Cuff flaps edge were scallop shape. Piping was white.

 

The yellow metal buttons bear the regimental number on them.


 


 

 

Col de Mai

Portrait of Colonel Louis de May

(Zurich Museum)

 

 

 

 

Source: Dempsey, Guy C.: Napoleon's Mercenaries: Foreign Units in the French Army Under the Consulate and Empire, 1799-1814 – Greenhill Books. London, 2002