Freicorps - Clermont Prince

Inhaber
1758 Prince de Clermont

Unit History
The unit was authorized on the 27th of April 1758 as two companies of 53 grenadiers, nine of 105 fusiliers, sixteen of 53 dragoons and two regimental guns. The cavalry formed two squadrons that were present at Hastenbeck 1757. After capturing two enemy standards in February 1759, it joined the 1759 summer campaign after the battle at Bergen. Part of the corps and most of its officers were captured in September 1760 when they were surprised in an Allied raid on Zeiernberg. The remains of the unit spent the 1760 winter quartered at Eisenach. Renamed Legion Conde in 1766. The unit could be used either as a legion or separated into its two components - Cavalry and Light Infantry.
Generally used as a Light force that screened the regular force from the enemy. An elite unit disbanded in 1776.

Comments
Years ago when Front Rank put out these figures, I bought the Light infantry. Like so many SYW collectors, I like the Schomberg helmet. When I actually started to research which troops wore the helmet, I found I was limited and rather than paint the Schomberg troops, I decided to paint a less well known force – although I suspect many of us have discovered these particular troops and added them to our SYW collection just because Front Rank has such nice figures. Unit painted in 1991.

Sources
Text: Osprey’s Louis XV's Army (4) Light Troops and Specialists (Men-at-Arms 308)