Digby thinking about your hat pompoms, could it not simply be that the confusion is caused by the quick evaporation of most of the ex saxon battalions?

If te Regiments were intended to be redesignated Fusilier, but te majority of them evaporated before the logistics of this could be achieved, then it is correct to say that for a given regiment it wore tricorns its entire life, yet was officialy designated fusilier (the fusilier caps being to late in ariving to be ever issued)?

Longshot, but stranger things have happened.

Daryl