Great Northern War Regiment number ten - Vastmanlands - Completed

As per my previous post, the latest addition to my Swedish GNW collection is the Vastmanlands Regiment, sporting the near standard uniform of blue coat with yellow facings, although wearing blue stockings rather than yellow.

Brief history below:

Västmanlands regemente

The regiment was first established in 1623 as the Västmanland Regiment. The regiment was linked to the Allotment System in 1682.

The regiment's history goes back to the "fänikor" that was raised in the province of Västmanland in the 16th century. In 1617, King Gustav II Adolf formed a "landsregemente" - a Grand Regiment, from the Västmanland fänikor and from fänikor in the provinces of Dalarna and Uppland.

In 1623 the Grand Regiment was split up into three independent regiments, The Västmanland Regiment, The Uppland Regiment and The Dalecarlia Regiment. As a result of the Constitution adopted in 1634 the Army was reorganized. The Västmanland Regiment was then referred to as the "15th Regiment". The regiment was allotted with 1200 rotar. Hence, the Regiment had 1200 soldiers organized into 8 companies. The regiment's "rotar" were located within the counties of Västmanland , Örebro and Kopparberg .

Uniform before the standard uniform: Red coat with yellow cuffs (1675). The regiment received the standard uniform (the blue and yellow Carolean uniform) in1691.

Victorious Battle Campaigns (segernamn):  

•Narva 1700

•Düna 1701

•Kliszow 1702

•Fraustadt 1706

•Helsingborg 1710

•Gadebusch 1712

One shot of the entire unit charging into the face of Russian or Saxon fire.....

The grenadiers caps have been painted with an approximation of the regimental badge from the standard

I used some "Imagi-Nation" skills on the drummers uniform!

Just marching onto the painting desk now is a unit in tricorns, to be painted in exactly the same uniform as these guys, (excepting the headgear of course!) representing the Kronoberg Regimente. Hopefully, they should be completed this week.