Livregementet till häst
(Life Regiment on Horse)
|

1700 |

1707 |

1710 |
The colour of the shabraques (which had three crowns in yellow in the
outer corners) is only mentioned for the year 1700 and described as just
"blue" while the coat and its lining is described as light blue. For the
years 1703/06 Höglund writes that the coat was light blue with blue
lining.
|
Östgöta Cavalry Regiment |

1700-? |

?-1709 |

1710-1718 |

1719- |
The cloaks on all pictures follow the description of those that were
ordered in 1717 (blue cloak with blue collar and yellow lining). For the
year 1700 it is only mentioned as “blue" and for 1710 Höglund writes
that the whole uniform, with the exception of white hat lace, identical
with the one from 1700.
The appearance of the shabraques is only
described for the year 1700 and in the order from 1717 (which was not
delivered in time for the Norwegian campaign in 1718). They are
identical with the only difference that the latter mention that a
griffon in yellow wool decorates the outer corners.
|
Småland Cavalry Regiment |

1700-? |

?-1709
|

1710- |
Södra Skånska Cavalry
Regiment
(South Scanian) |

-1700 |

1701-1703 |

1703-? |

1711- |
Ten-year-old uniform which was donated to Skånska
3-männings Regiment after the outbreak of the war. Colour of hat lace,
buttons and shabraque unknown. |
Old light blue coats were used to manufacture vests but
recruits had leather vests and leather breeches in 1704. Button and shabraque colour
unknown. Hats with silver lace 1704. New uniform issued 1706/07 but not
described in the sources. |
Colour on hat lace, buttons lining and cuffs not
mentioned. Only 223 cavalrymen had approved equipment at the general
muster in 1711. |
Norra Skånska Cavalry
Regiment
(North Scanian) |

1702-? |

?-1709 |

1710- |
The shabraques were decorated with the royal cypher and
crown. Uniform issued before 1702 is unknown. |
No uniform information between 1702 and 1710. |
Button colour as well as the cloak’s lining and collar
not mentioned. |
Riksänkedrottningens livregemente till häst
(Queen Dowager's Life Regiment on Horse)
|

1702-1708 |

1708-1713 |

1714-1720 |
Uniform before 1702 is unknown, but old hats with narrow
gold lace from 1701 were recycled in 1715. |
When the regimen received new uniforms in 1708, the
colour on cloaks and coats did not match the prescribed cloth samples.
Colour of the shabraques not mentioned |
Button colour unknown. |
Bohuslän Dragoon Squadron |

1702 |

1712 |
Västgöta Cavalry Regiment |

1700-? |

?-1713 |

1714-
Button colour and shabraques not mentioned. |
Jämtland Cavalry Company |

1695-? |

?-1722
The company is reported in 1717 to have had 125 hats as
well as blue cloaks together with grey karpuses and old grey cloaks. |
Swedish Adelsfana |

1689-1704 |

1704-1709 |

1710-? |
The shabraques had a blue royal crown in the outer corners. |
Recruits received in 1705 hats with white lace instead of
silver lace as well as grey piecoats instead of cloaks.
The appearance of the shabraques are only described for the period of 1689-1704. |
According to Anders Larsson, lace on both the hat and the
cloak’s collar were white (Höglund have silver hat lace). Received in
1713 (partially) and in 1716 (completely) new uniforms but these have not
been described in the sources. |
Other Adelsfana Units
|

Estonian Adelsfana & Livonian Adelsfana
1700? |

Estonian Adelsfana
1708/09
|

Pommeranian &
Bremen-Verden Adelsfana
|
Höglund describes uniforms that are identical
with the Swedish Adelsfana (1689-1704) but provides no dates
for the Baltic units. |
Höglund only writes that they had hat, blue coat, leather vest
and leather breeches. But the regiments in the Baltic provinces appear to have
been uniformly dressed at this time, so both the Estonian and Livonian Adelsfana
probably looked like the picture above. |
Uppland 3-männing Regiment
|

1700-1704 |

1704-1709? |

1712-1719 |

1719 |
Had both white and black neckcloths in 1700. The uniform issued in 1704 is
unknown. The one that was issued in 1712, when the regiment was
restored, had the same colours as the one from 1700.
The regiment received new uniforms in 1719, which consisted of: hat
with lace, vadmal pie coat, vadmal coat, vest made of leather
or vadmal and a black neckcloth. However, it was disbanded the same year and
the cavalrymen were transferred to Uppland Stånd Dragoons. The colour of the
shabraque is not mentioned at any point in time.
|
Other 3-männings and
5-männings
|

Skånska 3-männings
1701-1711 |

Skånska 3-männings
1711-1721
|

Västgöta 3-männings
1704-1716 |

Uppland 5-männings
1710-1715 |
Were given Södra Skånska’s ten-year-old uniforms when it
was raised in 1700 and still wore these when the Danes invaded Scania
1709. Colour of hat lace, buttons and shabraque unknown. The shabraques
were however blue in 1712. |
Colours of the lining, cuffs, vest and
breeches are not mentioned. |
Coat and cloak of vadmal without description of colours.
Hat lace not mentioned either. |
Hat lace and button colour unknown, but in 1716 they had
pewter buttons and the trumpeters had white lace.
The colour of the shabraque is not mentioned at any point in time. |
Stånd Dragoons
"Estate Dragoons"
|

Uppland
1704-1709 |

Skånska
1702-1706 |

Skånska
1707-1709 |

Västgöta
1704-1712 |
Silver hat lace in 1707, no mentioning of the colour
before then. The Regiment's company and command journal from 1702-1704
reveals that their hats were cocked and coats had turnbacks. |
The colour of the shabraques and pistol covers are only mentioned for
Uppland Stånd Dragoons. But because theirs were yellow in 1704 and the
Öselska Land Dragoons, which were recruited in the same way, also had
yellow shabraques, I have made the assumption that all Stånd Dragoons
were issued yellow shabraques (with a blue edge?) at that time.
The
uniforms for the Finnish Stånd Dragoons
are completely unknown and the Gotland Stånd
Dragoons are only known to have had blue coats in 1705.
|
Land Dragoons
The uniform for
Laurentzen's Free Dragoons is completely unknown. This unit, which existed
1701-1706, was raised by the burghers in Wenden, Wolmar, Walk and Lemsal. |

Estonian Land Dragoons
1701 (according to Kroon) |

Ösel Land Dragoons
1703-1708 |

Livonian Land Dragoons
1701 (according to Kroon) |

Livonian Land Dragoons
1708 (according to Höglund) |
Hat lace and shabraques are not mentioned but the pistol
covers were black.
Höglund states that they had karpus, grey vadmal coat
with pewter buttons and yellow cuffs, leather vest, leather breeches. At
the muster the same year complaints were made of coats without lining
and other deficiencies. |
Hat lace unknown, but yellow was a common colour in
Lewenhaupt's corps. |
Shabraques are not mentioned.
Höglund states that they in 1701 had blue karpus with
yellow lining, pie coat with pewter buttons, blue coat with pewter
buttons, leather vest, leather breeches and likely blue shabraques and
pistol covers. In 1706 the breeches were blue. |
The only details that are mentioned are: hat, blue coat
with yellow lining and cuffs. But compare with his description of the
1701 uniform. |
The Drabants Corps
|

1700-? |

?-1716 |
The uniforms are only described for the year 1700 and then really only
in the form of lists of how much material was used for them.
|
Enlisted
Cavalry Regiments
|

Estonian Cavalry Regiment
1697-? |

Bremen Cavalry Regiment
1701-? |

Pomeranian Cavalry Regiment
1702-? |

Vallack Regiment
Niester Dragoon Reg.
Polish Regiment on Horse
Red coats in 1718 |
According to Lars-Eric Höglund, the shabraques were
white, while Anders Larsson states that they were red. No one mentions
any colour on the edge, but it is my own "compromise" that matches the
coat. |
The shabraques were decorated with the royal cypher and
crown in yellow. |
The shabraques were decorated with count Mellin’s coat of
arms in the outer corners. Colour of the vest is unknown. According to
Anders Larsson, they had silver lace hat, collar and cuffs. |
Livdragonerna
(Life Dragoons) |

Narva 1700 |

Kliszow 1702 |

Fraustadt 1706 |

Poltava 1709 |
With the exception of the neckcloth, the Life Dragoons appear to have had
the same uniform colours throughout the war. When the regiment was raised
in 1700 they received black neckcloths, in 1707 they received blue and
white striped neckcloths and in 1716-18 black and white neckcloths were
issued to the life dragoons.
However, the colour of the
hat lace is only mentioned in 1707 when it was made of gold, while in
1700 it is only stated to have been made of camel hair.
The colours of the shabraque
and pistol covers are also uncertain because they are only mentioned for
the year 1700. According to Höglund, the shabraque was then was yellow with a
blue edge and the pistol covers were yellow. Anders Larsson writes that
the pistol covers were made of yellow baize and leather, and that the
shabraque was made of "blue cloth decorated with yellow and silver lace around
it".
|
Enlisted Dragoons
|

W. A. Schlippenbach's
Dragoon Regiment
1703-1709 |

Schreiterfeldt's
Dragoon Regiment
1703-1709 |

A. J. Schlippenbach's (Skogh's) Squadron
1701 |

Skogh's
Dragoon Squadron
ca 1708 |
Yellow pistol covers. Colour on cuffs and lining unknown |
Colour on cuffs, lining, buttons and hat lace unknown. Was called G. E. d'Albedyhl until 1704. |
Vest, buttons and shabraque unknown.
Became Skogh's squadron in 1706. |
The only mentioned colours are blue for the coat and
leather for vest and breeches. |
The yellow colour on cuffs, lining and
hat lace for the three regiments above is guesswork based on the fact
that the regiments in Lewenhaupt’s corps appear to have been uniformly
dressed. |
 
Bremen Dragoons
1700-1704
The uniform that was issued in 1704 is unknown. |
 
Verden Dragoons
1703-? |
According to
Höglund, the pistol covers had the same colour as the cuffs
(chamois-yellow). While the shabraque is specified as blue, with blue and
yellow edge for privates, and yellow edge and silver lace for
non-commissioned officers.
Anders
Larsson describes the shabraque as blue with "silver and blue/yellow
round cord studded". For non-commissioned officers
they were "of blue cloth with "a hand's breadth" chamois coloured cloth
band around and on either side of the yellow band a blue/yellow/silver
cord. Corporals' cord of white/blue/silver". |
According to
Höglund, the pistol covers and shabraques were blue with a white edge. For
non-commissioned officers, these were also blue with silver lace.
Anders
Larsson describes no pistol covers and only the non-commissioned
officers' shabraques, which were blue with a silver lace two times
around and between these a serpentine-shaped narrower silver lace.
My shabraques
follow Larsson's description of the non-commissioned officers, but with
white instead of silver. |
 
Pomeranian Dragoons
1703-? |

Meijerfelt's
Dragoon Regiment
1706-1709
Button and shabraque colour unknown. |
Anders
Larsson describes the shabraques as blue "with a thick gold-yellow camel
hair lace embedded and then with a 2-finger wide golden yellow thick
camel hair lace studded. In the middle with a blue winding seam
studded".
The
non-commissioned officers' shabraques and pistol covers were "of blue
cloth with with a wide gold lace and another 1 ½ finger wide
lace". |
 
Hielm's
Dragoon Regiment
1705-1709 |
 
Dücker's
Dragoon Regiment
1705-1709 |
Yellow pistol covers with blue edge. Blue shabraques decorated
with the royal cipher in yellow edged with yellow and black thread. |
According to
Anders Larsson: "Blue cloth shabraque underlined with black linen.
Studded with a yellow wide camelhair ledge and with a narrower one
of the same kind which is also made with yellow cloth and decorated with blue and
yellow lace." |
 
Taube's
Dragoon Regiment
1704-1709 |
 
Gyllenstierna's and d'Albedyhl's
Dragoon Regiments
1706-1709 |
According to Höglund: yellow pistol covers with blue edge.
Blue shabraque with yellow edge, laced with blue and yellow cord. The
pictures above follow the illustration in Höglund's book.
Larsson describes the shabraque as blue "with blue and
yellow edge, yellow name cipher and crown in the outer corners. A
blue/yellow round cord attached with blue/yellow lace. Yellow pistol
covers with a blue band around." |
Raised in 1706 as one regiment but was soon split into
two. |

Horse Grenadiers
1706 |

French
Dragoon Regiment
1707-1715 |
Was never fully recruited. Its commander (Hagen) at one point stated that he
had recruited 200 men, but he died in a duel in November 1706 and it is
unclear what happened to these men thereafter. |
Was originally
a French grenadier regiment captured at the Battle of Blenheim.
Transferred to Saxon service and was again captured at the Battle of
Fraustadt after which it entered Swedish service as an
infantry
battalion. Was captured by the Saxons in the Battle of Kalisz but
returned to the Swedish army and then converted into a dragoon regiment. |

Schwerin's
Dragoon Regiment
1710-1715 |

Smiegelski's Polish Dragoon Squadron
1711-1713 |

Bassewitz'
Dragoon Regiment
1711-1715 |

Bender
Dragoon Regiment
1712-1715 |
Formed by the ethnic Swedes in Bender. |

Vietinghoff's
Dragoon Regiment
1714-1715 |

Tyska (German)
Dragoon Regiment
1716? |
Only a proposal for uniforms and it is unclear if it was issued.
The shabraque is not mentioned. The regiment was formed in 1716 by the
remnants of the other regiments in Pomerania. When it was mustered in the
late winter, early spring of 1716, it had very diverse
uniforms. They consisted of hats with or without lace, or karpuses.
Grey, blue, red, brown or black coats. Camisoles of leather or blue or
brown cloth. Leather breeches or grey vadmal breeches. |
Another battle painter from
these first years of the Great Northern War was Joh. Lithén (ennobled
Litheim), who followed Dahlberg in the field. His presentation of the Battle
of Narva shows, among other things, the following details. The
cavalry, which dominates the foreground, has indistinct turnbacks. The
hats are folded up all around but not fastened. Only two officers and a
couple of privates have a three-sided raised, but not attached, brim. A
cavalryman wears a karpus-like headdress. Almost all cavalrymen have long
hair, an officer and some privates have also a hair pouch. The foot
soldiers wear hats with irregularly folded up brims, in one case a hair
pouch.