Warflag: Maximillian Adventure

 Flags from Warflag.com  by Ian Croxall Salem

Mexican Imperial Flag

                                         

Mexican Regimental Flag

French infantry

Cavalry Pennons & Guidons

Plate 6 & 7

Imperial cavalry used swallow-tailed guidons & standards, based on the Mexican colours. Lance pennons would likely have been simple tricolours, while unit standards would have borne the eagle, and most likely, unit titles as well. 

Plate 8

Hungarian Hussars. This is the guidon carried by the Hungarian cavalry in Mexican service. The colours are not in fact Mexican, it is merely a swallow-tailed version of the Hungarian flag. 

Plate 9

French Infantry. This a French Foreign Legion flag: Infantry units would have their own unit title on the obverse, with unit mottos or battle honours on the reverse. Cavalry standards were similar, but smaller. 

Plate 6

 Plate 7

 Plate 8

Austrian Legion

Hasburg Flag

Belgian Legion

Republican Infantry & Cavalry

Plate 10

Republican Infantry. This is merely the Mexican National flag with military titles added. There were many variations on the Eagle and title styles. 

                                         Plate 10