This Kannik's Korner Man's Gaiters or Spatterdashes For Infantry, Militia & Civilians Pattern provides full-scale patterns and detailed directions for seven styles of gaiters, plus three tongue variations, which allows for 21 different variations in one pattern.  The Kannik's Korner Man's Gaiters or Spatterdashes For Infantry, Militia & Civilians is a great pattern for styles of the era given, but is also easily adapted to eras from the Revolutionary War to Victorian.