Regiment La Tour d’Auvergne

 I picked up two small battalions of this unit off fleabay, and after a bit of tidying up, reorganisation and rebasing, I now have one battalion of 36, my normal size for a French unit, with a few figures spare to do some skirmisher bases. With a few exceptions these are all Victrix plastic figures. The photos are rubbish but the lighting wasn't good this afternoon as we were hit by a massive thunder storm.

The Régiment de La Tour d'Auvergne was a light infantry regiment created by Napoleon Bonaparte in September 1805. Its first colonel was Godefroy Maurice Marie Joseph de La Tour d'Auvergne (1805–1808 I think). He was a Royalist who had reconciled with the Empire. Composed primarily of Austrian prisoners of war and men of various nationalities, it served under the French in Italy and Spain before being renamed the 1er Régiment Étranger (1st Foreign Regiment) in 1811. 

it doesn't fit in with the rest of my French but I was attracted to the regiment.