Historical Backgrounds
This is the place to find historical backgrounds for some of the wargames periods and battles that we have enjoyed playing. If you feel inspired and want to see an article of your own in print then please contact us via the contact page. Full battle reports will appear of any battle featured on this page.
Coat Colours of the English Civil War
The following will I hope eventually become an exhaustive list of coat colours for the major sides of the English Civil war, born from my own frustration at not finding such a list anywhere else. Whilst some regiments may have had the same coat colour and colonel throughout the war other regiments would have changed coat colours and/or colonel from time to time when necessary. The list is a result of many hours of trawling through books and the internet for any snippets of information that I could gather on coat colours since I started collecting wargames figures for the period over the last 35 years or so. Having said that I am in no doubt that it will evolve and be subject to many changes and additions as time goes by, but for now here are the initial offerings.
Key (F) = Regt of Foot (H) = Regt of Horse
Key (F) = Regt of Foot (H) = Regt of Horse
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Royalist
Red Coats King's Lifeguard (F) (H) King's Firelocks (F) Queen's Lifeguard (F) Prince Rupert's Firelocks (F) Prince Rupert's Lifeguard (H) Prince Maurice (F) (H) Duke of York (F) Lord Inchiquin (F) (H) Lord Wentworth (F) Sir Bernard Astley (F) Sir Thomas Tyldesley (F) Sir William Saville (F) Earl of Forth (F) Marquis of Hertford (F) Marquis of Winchester (F) (H) Sir Henry Vaughan (F) Sir Arthur Aston (F) (H) Sir Alan Apsley (F) Sir Jacob Astley (F) Sir Richard Fielding (F) Sir Charles Lloyd (F) John Owen (F) Lord Molyneux (F) (H) Edward Hopton (F) Blue Coats Queen's Lifeguard (H) Prince Charles (F) (H) Prince Rupert (F) (H) Lord Ralph Hopton (F) Sir Richard Bolle (F) Sir Gervase Lucas (F) Sir John Byron (F) (H) Francis Cooke (F) Lord John Bellasyse (F) Sir Edward Fitton (F) Thomas Lunsford (F) Sir Gilbert Gerrard (F) Sir Anthony Thelwell (F) Henry Lunsford (F) Charles Gerrard (F) Sir Nicholas Slanning (F) Sir Edward Stradling (F) Sir Thomas Basset (F) William Eure (F) (H) Sir Richard Astley (H) Conyers D'Arcy (F) Sir William Pennyman (F) White Coats Sir Stephen Hawkins (F) Lord Percy (F) Marquis of Newcastle (F) Sir William Lambton( F) Anthony Byerley (F) John Lamplugh (F) Sir Thomas Tyldesley (F) Sir Ralph Dutton (F) Grey Coats Sir Lewis Dyve (F) Colonel Pallard (F) Thomas Pinchbeck (F) Sir Henry Bard (F) Sir John Ackland (F) Green Coats Earl of Northampton (F) (H) Robert Broughton (F) Henry Tillier (F) Yellow Coats Sir Gilbert Talbot (F) John Talbot (F) Sir Charles Vavasour (F) Sir Francis Gamul (F) Sir Marmaduke Rawdon (F) Sir Matthew Appleyard (F) Sir John Paulet (F) Purple Coats Richard Bagot (F) Black or Dark Grey Coats Sir Thomas Blackwell (F) Earl Rivers (F) |
Parliamentarian
Red Coats Lord Robartes (F) Oliver Cromwell (H) Sir Michael Livesey Sir Phillip Skippon (F) Ralph Weldon (F) Randall Mainwaring Denzil Holles (F) Harry Barclay John Holmstead (F) Thomas Rainsborough Anthony Stapley Sir Thomas Fairfax (F) (H) Lord Peterborough (F) Edward Montague (F) Lord Halifax London Auxillaries (F) London Trained Bands (F) New Model Army (F) (H) Blue Coats Earl of Stamford (F) Sir Henry Cholmley (F) Sir William Constable (F) George Langham George Payne Edward Aldrich (F) John Hutchinson Lord Saye & Sele (F) Lord Rochford (F) Sir Arthur Hasselrigge (F) (H) Lord Hasting Lord Mandeville (F) White Coats Sir William Brook Sir William Springate (F) Grey Coats Earl of Denbigh Sir John Gell (F) Lord Fielding (H) John Bright (F) Simon Rugeley Richard Browne Sir John Merrick (F) Wharton (F) Lord Fairfax (F) Thomas Ballard (F) William Ryves Green Coats Earl of Manchester (F) Samuel Jones (F) Colonel Byng (F) John Hampden (F) (H) Yellow Coats Sir Andrew Potley (F) Sir William Waller (H) Russet Coats Thomas Grantham (F) Orange or Tawney Coats Earl of Essex (F) Charles Essex (F) Purple Coats Lord Brookes (F) |