Apologies for a so long silence, as well as for the lack of any news regarding my own researchings. Truth is that I've had to temporarily put some of my works aside, in spite that a few scholar and/or bibliographical news have arosen lately -fewer than expected last year, however.1) On the bibliography side, the main news is a new hardcover book by Prof. F. Xavier Hernández and Francesc Riart, published by Dalmau Editor as usual, which is devoted to the Coronela (or citizen Militia) of Barcelona City between 1705 and 1714. It is plenty of lavishly coloured uniform plates giving an unbelievable range of variety for one single regiment. Have in mind that in this peculiar unit -funded and manpowered by local professional Guilds- uniforms were different for each company, because trial was in hands of each Guild... and the Coronela had up to 6 battalions!! So you can imagine what kind of treasure can this book be, published in the very same style as their previous work, The Army of Catalonia 1713-1714 (unfortunately published in Catalan only). I purchased an issue of it by Christmas' time, but have had little time so far to organize its contents and publish an English language booklet with them.
2) On the side of my own works, I've been from time to time classifying my available sources about Philip d'Anjou's Army, in such a way that I can now offer to you one of the results of it. This is a complete listing of all Bourbon Spanish Infantry Regiments after the 1714 inspection, presumably just after the submission of Catalonia. Listing includes name and number of each regiment, their Colonel by 1714, eventual later changes suffered, and a uniform colour schema for all those I've been able to gather any info about. A likely next step would be matching this listing with the 1713 Spanish order of battle according to Nafziger collection, as well as the accountings of units withdrawn from Flanders and Sicily between 1713 and 1714, in order to obtain the most complete possible view on the Army of Philip V.
Such Philip V Infantry Listing can be freely downloaded from this link, as a ZIP-compressed PDF file.
3) A third issue to be noted is about an acid comment from a Spanish reader to one of my latest threads, who intentionally discredited a friendly website I quoted, that one of the Virtual Museum of WSS, or Museu Virtual de la Guerra de Successió in Catalan. I can ensure that, after fifteen years of surfing and leaving my works on the Net, I've literally get bored about the ceaseless intrusions of every kind of SHIPs (Spanish Homeland Integrity Preservers) you can imagine: boring military-with-nothing-better-to-do, dreadful old-style nationalists, disturbing pseudo-democratic new-style-nationalists and similar species of Quixote-like knights of the Ever Holy Unity. Plainly catalanophobic guys, I'd simply say. During all these years of enjoying the Net, I've happened to find lots of their websites, but have ever thought about disturbing them or intruding into their works. I've simply ignored them, a faithful follower of the "live and let it live" rule as I am. Why the hell then they continually persist in their redemptory Croisade?
I first felt tempted at entering a likely neverending arguing with him, but I felt so bored in advance by such prospective that I've finally given up. I afterwards thought about opening a thread about it at this blog, but this is not the aim of such website, so that I will also renounce to it. In the end, I've finally chosen to publicly admit this poster's complaints and consequently publish this formal warning:
NOTICE TO ALL EVENTUAL READERS:
This blog is written by a Catalan individual and deals with Catalan History in periods that may enter conflict with the Official History of Spain. Therefore, this blog and all other Catalan-made blogs linked from this site should be considered as suspicious of intentionally falsifying History (the Real One) to their seditious profit. No matter some of those websites have been written by scholars, and/or supervised under authority of a University, because it is a Catalonian University, not less suspicious than individuals. Even more revealing is the fact that some of such websites do also enjoy support from the Catalan Government, the most suspicious of all in spite of being a fully democratic institution -because it's a Catalonian institution. All that might be stated by all them must be merely considered as propaganda and a Collection of Deliberate Lies. You all are warned.
¿Estáis contentos ahora?
2 comments:
It would be interesting to see the differences you have found compared with the Nafziger listings, or other ones that are around in English.
There is a small but info-packed booklet about the Army of Philip V that would be most interesting for a comparison.
It would be interesting whether it is right or wrong about some things.I think it is by Jim Hinds, in the Editions Brokaw series, and the store On Military Matters would have it.
Yes I thought of it too. As a matter of fact, my listing was matched with that of Mr. Hinds' booklet, so that I was able to include his own notes about uniforms.
There are a few units mentioned by Hinds which do not correspond to any of those of the 1714 Inspection listing; some of the names are in fact later than 1714, so I've noted aside my own guessings about those names origin.
There is a lot of work to be done yet, hopefully after more data crossings with other booklets or listings...
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