Great, I get four days off at Christmas and come down with flu/asthma on Christmas eve, bummer. However it means that I get left alone to amuse myself (meals pushed under door) and I turned this up; scroll to bottom of page and play video, Turco marches, great stuff.
http://www.carltonhobbs.net/paintings/les-tirailleurs-algeriens/2014/08/04/

Later ... cough ... seem to remember a conversation re Turco battalion flags earlier, here they are, if you copy to paint and reduce to 10% they are quite useable, prob slightly over scale for 10mm but I've found further reduction makes them illegible. - http://www.warflag.com/flags/fp/fpf1corptbc.shtml

Good finds sir.

Get well soon old bean.

Wheeze

Hope you get better soon.

I often used to complain, when I was still working, that as soon as I had a holiday my body got rid of the accumulated stress from work by pouring it out of my eyes and nose

"I'm sick and tired of feeling sick and tired!"

Retirement is proving to be a wonderful thing.

Those marches are almost jaunty compared to some French Line marches of the period!

Hope you feel better soon, Cam !
Cheers - Phil.

Sorry to hear you are under the weather, hope you come through it soon.  I think the topic you were referring to was actually about Zouave fanions, and our collective wisdom failed to come up with an answer, although lack of specific evidence in excellent sources implied that the Zouave ones were standard line ones.  The ones you have here are the Turco regiments, and appeared in various guises in the previous thread.

Mollinary

Get well soon. Have you come across Dr Patrick Marder's work on the mitrailleuse. Although it mentions the Montigny he does go on to say that Reffye championed the adoption of the mitrailleuse in France and was responsible for its production, but unfortunately he does not say whether Napoleon had already purchased any of the Montigny models of the gun. He does analyse the use of mitrailleuses in the battles of the Imperial phase and notes that even by Borny the gunners were beginning to use the weapon in a much more effective way. Nevertheless the Empire was still defeated within a month.

As long as its not Yellar Fever (Arrr!) Seriously, at least you won't have the stress of forcing yourself to go to work. Take it easy.

Quote from: Dour Puritan on 28 December 2014, 01:52:25 PM
Get well soon. Have you come across Dr Patrick Marder's work on the mitrailleuse. Although it mentions the Montigny he does go on to say that Reffye championed the adoption of the mitrailleuse in France and was responsible for its production, but unfortunately he does not say whether Napoleon had already purchased any of the Montigny models of the gun. He does analyse the use of mitrailleuses in the battles of the Imperial phase and notes that even by Borny the gunners were beginning to use the weapon in a much more effective way. Nevertheless the Empire was still defeated within a month.

Yes I know Patrick to correspond with; his De bellum site was amazing, lots of tech stuff about muzzle velocity and the like, right up my street.

Mollinary
Yes you're quite right it was Zouave fanions ... wheeze (this is what happens when you give up smoking  )

How like a vet to be feeling a little hoarse.
Get well soon, I hear hot toddies are available in your neck of the woods.

Get well soon. Trying to fight off a cold, but said cold getting the better of me at present .

Two pairs of flannel pyjamas, one towelling dressing gown, electric blanket on max, take lemsip and go to bed; keep taking oral hydration and remember to change pyjamas regularly (you'll sweat like someone with malaria); the delirious dreams are no fun but you should burn the virus off in about 48hrs, after that its just recuperation. Enjoy 

I came down with a nasty  chesty cough on Xmas day I cant seem to shift, going to the doctors if it doesn't clear up soon

Cold 1 : Me 0 

Now have classic thick head and nasty cough. Being a bronchial asthmatic have to be careful it doesn't develop into a chest infection. I hate colds, they're so boring!!!