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Uniforms Of Spanish Units At Talavera
(Spanish Text by José Manuel Rodríguez Gómez, Illustrations by Jose Maria Bueno)Line Infantry of the Ireland Regiment
This soldier wears the uniform of 1805 with bicorne hat and white breeches. Note the sky blue of the coat, exclusive to units of irish origin, of which there were three before the war, the regiments Irlanda, Hibernia and Ultonia. The troops were formed from irish catholic immigrants, expelled or exiled from Ireland for supporting the Jacobite pretender to the throne. Other continental catholic countries like France, also gave asylum to Irish families, and also formed regiments of troops from them. It should be noted that throughout the Revolutionary War the irish were loyal unto death to their adopted country, Spain.
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