Argentinians

 Here we have the first of my Argentinian contingent for the Triple Alliance project. With the excerpt some of the officers they are all repurposed Franco-Prussian War Garde Mobile and Francs Tirreurs. I’d had them laying about for years and decided I am happy sticking to the Imperial phase of the FPW so these guys were redundant and have been shipped across the Atlantic to sunny South America.

The battalions in front and at the rear represent regular troops in campaign dress while the middle battalion in green are the Legion Militar. One contemporary source (from a guy who served with the unit) has them in green although others show them in a Zouave-like uniform. I shall have one of each.