Anamites

I was so impressed by Ingo's sculpting of the Bengal lancers that I asked him to make me some Anamites for my French in Indochina project.

So far I want to share with you some of the uniformplates from my archive and hopefully in a few weeks I can show the masters too.  In the photos and plates here you have a mix of Anamites, Cochinchina and Black flags. The French fought all of them between 1883 and 1885.

A good uniform-source for the "natives" is Ian Heath's Burma and Indo-China (Armies of the 19th century: Asia
from Foundry-books.