Defenders of the Crown: Foot Dragoons and the Road Cross #3 (With Fire and Sword ) (Anno Domini 1666)

Hello everyone!

I invite you to the fourth post on the Ogniem i Mieczem project today.
I finished the last two Polish foot dragoons from the 17th century that will join my band.

        The manufacturer released three Dragon designs, not many could be said, but I tried to make sure that my three pairs of soldiers were not uniform clones.
I added parts to one that I got from friends in charge of the Dunkeldorf Miniatures project.
This is a lamp that I added instead of a firearm, and a bottle with a booze on the back.

The next ones differ in the colors of the outfit and the facial expressions
I think it turned out pretty cool.
Invite!

In the army of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the first unit of dragoons appeared in the Lithuanian army in 1617. It was a flag of 150 soldiers commanded by Gabriel Ceridon, who came from France through Courland.

       In the 17th century, they were units that fought on foot, as in the case of the Western European prototype, and armed with muskets, arquebuses, half-hooks, pistols and sabers, broadswords or rapiers.
The most common set of weapons was a fuse musket, two wheeled pistols and a saber or broadsword. On the other hand, colets were worn as a kind of light protective outfit, more or less from the beginning of the 1740s.
Dragoons were organized into independent banners (sometimes called companies), squadrons or regiments.

       In the Crown Army, the first dragoons unit known to us was the mercenary Seja banner of 200 men, hired in 1618 for the Moscow campaign of Prince Władysław.
From the mid-17th century, dragonia constituted about half of the total armed forces of the Republic of Poland.
Its number grew from the 20s of the 17th century with the increasing need to use units with great firepower on the battlefield - in 1649 dragoons constituted 22.5% of the Lithuanian army, in 1650 24%, and in 1661 dragoons were already 40% of the entire Lithuanian army.

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