Talk:Red beret

Crvene beretke

Shouldn't the crvene beretke be placed in paramilitary forces? It was hardly a true army unit.

In the First Carlist War the Red Berets (Chapelgorris) were...

...an anti-Carlist free corps raised by the Guipuzcoan authorities. In the second war (1872-76) the Guipuzcoan miqueletes -a local constable opposed to the Carlists- and the Voluntarios de la Libertad (Liberalist militia) were issued again with red berets. This article is rather misleading. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.85.148.202 (talk) 19:20, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

2nd (or 3rd) Carlist War (1872-76): Carlist red beret perhaps not so widespread.

The Guipuzcoan and Castilian Carlist infantry battalions in 1872-1876 used to wear blue berets, aside from a few handpicked units with white or red berets. The Carlist newsletters used to be called "La boina blanca" (The White Beret). It was in c. 1910 when the red beret became eventually the standard male Carlist beret (with the white one in theory just for females). I don't deny that in the 1872 war many Carlist militiamen wore a red beret -the Navarrese Carlist infantry, for instance-, but many others wore a blue or white one, depending on the unit and the rank (and in the case of Carlist irregulars with no uniform: even a black one, as used by the civilians). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.10.4.156 (talk) 13:20, 7 March 2019 (UTC)

And in the 2nd (or 3rd) Carlist War (1872-76) the red berets were too...

...the Guipuzcoan Miqueletes,an anti-Carlist constabulary, and the Guipuzcoan "Voluntarios de la Libertad" ("Liberty Volunteers"), an anti-Carlist militia. Incidentally, the miqueletes and voluntarios de la Libertad's red berets seem to have been rather small, as used by the local people at the time, not the broader Basque beret as it is assumed nowadays. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.10.4.156 (talk) 13:26, 7 March 2019 (UTC)