Royal Ecossais-

I am getting through lots of painting but to stop getting fed up ,I m picking random packs out of the lead pile ,no way to get armies painted but its more fun . `Here are the command group of the Royal Ecossais a French Regiment of mainly Scottish Volunteers who were sent to aid the Jacobites in the 1745 rebellion . Figures and Flags by Flags of war .The finished unit will be used for the Jacobite Rebellion using too fat lardies Sharp Practice.

"In addition to red coated Irish Picquets Lord John Drummond, the commander of the French Troops, also brought some 400 men of his own regiment, the Royal Ecossois. This was a Scottish unit raised in 1744, for which Drummond was given permission to raise a second battalion in Scotland. A couple of officers and some men can certainly be identified as having joined the regiment after its arrival in Scotland, but the projected second battalion never materialised. Unlike the Irish regiments there was no polite fiction that these Scots soldiers were merely 'on loan' from the British Army and consequently, instead of the full-skirted red coats worn by the Irish, the Royal Ecossois had a rather dashing blue uniform." - Stuart Reid, 'Like Hungry Wolves'