Hessen-Darmstadt: Gross und Erbprinz Brigade

The last of the three regiments/Brigades in the army of Hessen-Darmstadt as of 1809, this is the Gross und Erbprinz.

It was assigned yellow facings. 

While the other 2 Hessian "Brigades" served as part of Massena's Corps in Bavaria and Austria, this regiment was sent to Spain in early 1809. 

There it adopted French organization, the 2 companies of the Green coated Fusilier battalion being added to the 4 musketeer companies of the two line battalions as Grenadier and Voltigeur companies. This caused the Grand Duke to complain to Napoleon that his meticulously uniformed troops were now wearing a hodgepodge of green and blue coats!  Later, French shakos were adopted (and red cords plumes, and epaulettes for the Grenadiers, green for the Voltigeurs), and all the coats became dark blue. While the rest of the infantry of Hessen-Darmstadt infantry theoretically adopted the shako in late 1809, the bicorne was reported to survive in at least partial use as late as 1812. 

I have given this unit both a white Leibfahne carried by the Leib company, and an ordinarfahne, carried by the former first company of the fusiliers. No justification except that I had an extra standard bearer, and thus I could!  :Lucas supplies free flags on his website, but in this case I actually preferred those form Napflag, which were used for all three units.