#Redcoat

[bantarleton]

Classic second battalion.

[greyhoundone]

[toastmrlord]

Dominic :((((

I actually thought more about his story and so far I got this:

Dominic comes from a family of soldiers, who all proved their „worth“ as a soldier at a relatively young age. Dominic, being almost 20 (in this drawing at least), the oldest son,and not fighting in any major war sees himself as a disappointment to the family. While his parents don’t force him to follow his Family’s footsteps, he is determined to (believing his ancestors are disappointed of him). So when American declared its independence and the revolutionary war started, he immediately joined the war hoping to prove he’s worth being part of his family.

I might still change some things, but this is like what I’ve written down for now lol

The pictures he’s looking up to are his ancestors btw, the guy in the middle is his grandfather (when he was a similar age as Dominic is in the drawing) and the guy on the right Dominic’s father. :33

Fun fact about Dominic/his family:

He’s the oldest sibling in his family, having a younger brother and sister, his brother does not follow his family’s footsteps and decides to not become a soldier. His brother is also the father of Lucius (another one of my characters lol)

[lil-gae-disaster]

How my mom loves to tell me when she sees my report card (IT'S ONE F AND EVEN ABOUT THAT I AIN'T SURE! I HAVE SEEN WORSE): Von nichts kommt nichts (from nothing comes nothing)

I gave Freddie about the same/a similar hairtype that I have, which means curly but it's only visible when he squeezes his hair out like on the pic.

And Freddie's gotta keep his reputation as (one of) the camp beauty(/beauties) intact

Also, this is about near the end of the war and since it's been a couple years, his hair has grown a bit, it's now reaching a bit over his shoulders

But this is a one time thing so no stressing. He rocks his short hair and I'll keep drawing it (except for childhood pictures, where his hair reaches his waist fairly easily)

@unicornsaures @hamalicious-soup

[clove-pinks]

1814 portrait miniature of Lieutenant John Trumbull Ray, by artist Andrew Robertson. A Peninsular War veteran of the Napoleonic Wars in the British Army, he served under Lt. Gen. Sir Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, and was wounded first during the Siege of Badajoz and, later, at the Battle of Salamanca.

[amnesiacprophetphotography]

A very fun trip to Fort George this summer to see the 1812 reenactment. As I get older the camp life stuff and work in the kitchen becomes a lot more interesting than just the drill and soldiering (still fun). Met lots of great people and learned a lot of cool stuff.

[thebaffledcaptain]

Musicians' Uniforms in the Revolutionary War

(Artwork by the legendary Don Troiani)

A favorite descriptor of mine states that British drummers and fifers of the Georgian era were "birds of very gay plumage throughout the whole of the 18th century," a phrase which has irrevocably rooted itself in my head whenever I think of these colorful lads. Often there is curiosity about the vibrant getup of these gents, simply because they blatantly don't fit in with the rest of their units—which happens to be precisely the point.

The reason behind these colorful coats is that musicians had to be the most stand-out members of their regiment: they functioned as the voice of the officers on the battlefield and therefore had to be easily locatable at any given time. Officers would communicate via their musicians in order to convey significant large-scale orders, such as to retreat or cease fire—orders you can imagine quick communication would be vital for—and in the fog of war it would have been difficult to pick a handful of musicians out of a sea of similarly-uniformed men-at-arms. Thus, the musicians wore the inverse colors of their regiments, with the regimental facing colors becoming the main color of the coat, and (in the case of the British army) the standard red coat color becoming the color of the facings. The fellow pictured above is a drummer from the 63rd Regiment of Foot, which was faced with "very dark green" according to the 1768 clothing warrant, and thus the green is the body color of his coat.

These uniforms were also elaborately ornamented with the regimental lace pattern, as you can see above, whereas on the coats of men-at-arms this lace was restricted to the buttonholes on the facings. The smallclothes would still generally be white or buff, matching whichever color smallclothes the men-at-arms wore, unless the regiment was faced in white or buff, in which case the smallclothes would be red so they wouldn’t be the same color as the coat. The regulations were quite specific, as you can tell, but it serves to emphasize the degree of importance the musician held in the 18th century army.

There is some debate as to whether musicians wore cocked hats or bearskins, like the drummer pictured above. Musicians were technically considered part of the grenadier company of a regiment, which is why they bear red "wings" on the shoulders of their uniform and why they often wore bearskins, but there exists evidence of them wearing cocked hats, as well, so it seems likely that depending on the regiment they could have worn either. They would be armed only with a short sword worn across the waist, as they generally were not expected to participate in actual combat. The instruments themselves also functioned as part of the uniform, in ways: the regimental drum was always painted in the facing color of the regiment, and in the case of fifers, the fife sling would also be colored according to the regimental colors—see the 22nd Regiment's "candy colored cord,” as we call it, below (as well as the red smallclothes, as they are a buff-faced regiment... featuring myself and my janky uniform on the right!).

(Photo by Jeff Bross)

As far as I know the Continental Army generally abided by these same practices, which is why you occasionally get instances of the "American redcoat": certain musicians from the Continental army wore red coats with blue facings, looking much like their British adversaries, because they came from Continental regiments faced with red. This kind of cross-army confusion did not occur with the British, however, as those regiments faced in blue were the Royal regiments, and, in accordance with this honor, the musicians of these regiments kept the standard red coat with blue facings as opposed to inverting them (they were, however, still distinguishable by their copious amounts of lacing). Just goes to show that not every red coat is a Redcoat, and not every Redcoat wears a red coat!

[a-maniac-making-art]

I kinda feel in love with @unicornsaures redcoat AU. I made this quick sketch in honor of ✨chapter 13✨.

[coolcomicbookcovers]

[bantarleton]

A recreated trooper of Cobham’s Dragoons as he would have looked during the 1745 Jacobite Rising.

[classic-art-favourites]

Richard St. George Mansergh-St. George by Thomas Gainsborough, 1776-1780.

[smashpages]

Ghost Machine Ash Can covers, as sold at New York Comic Con 2023, by Gary Frank and Jason Fabok, respectively. Colors by Brad Anderson

[lil-gae-disaster]

New Frederick "Freddie" Kenneth art :D

Btw

Everyone is allowed to use him when they give credit :D

@hamalicious-soup @unicornsaures

[toastmrlord]

Who’s this diva 💜💜

After months of abandoning my ocs, it’s finally time I come back.. who’s cheering??

[thebaffledcaptain]

Doodled another fifer from my beloved 22nd regiment—not a direct study this time, but heavily inspired by a (very tired) picture of myself at camp…

[amnesiacprophetphotography]

It was also a lot of fun to make it out to the Battle of Stoney Creek war of 1812 reenactment. I’d wanted to get out to an 1812 event to take photos and this was great. Unfortuantely I only had a couple of hours to stick around. I’d like to get more opportunity to shoot a full event, especially the camp life, women, kids, officers - the stuff you don’t see the details of during the battles.