Thursday, 3 October 2019

Prussian Battle Flag from Leipzig in 1813 - Landwehr? Something Else?


I spotted this flag for sale.  It appears to have been white (or gold?) with embroidery and to have hung vertically.

The seller says it Prussian and from Leipzig in 1813 but doesn't give any explanation of why?  Does this flag ring true? Which service would it be?  More details here.



Sunday, 22 September 2019

The Battle - By Patrick Rambaud, a short review of a Napoleonic Novel



Usually novels set in the Napoleonic Era use battles as the back drop. In this the Battle of Aspern Essling is the main character and it looms large.

The Battle is an award winning novel written by Frenchman Patrick Rambaud.

He tracks the two day battle itself through a combination of personalities,  Berthier and Bessiers, Massenna and Davout  and Napoleon himself, alongside a voltigeur a cuirassier and a staff officer.  The characters are filled out (although maybe could've been a little fuller).

The struggle of the battle, the choices and hazards, the way in which fate shapes futures are vividly painted, at times brutally.

I raced through this - reading it filled out my understanding of this piece of history more vibrantly than any traditional history might have done.  I recommend it as a great way to while away some time.

I bought a used copy from my local Oxfam shop.  You can also look here:

Amazon      EBay
Military History on Audible.

bookshop.org (support local indpendent bookshops this is a link to one of three graphic novels.

 





Monday, 16 September 2019

Musee de la Cavalerie - Saumur, visit summer 2019




Right folks - some pictures from my summer visit to the Cavalry Museum in Saumur, hosted in one of the old building used for training French Cavalry -  mostly images from Napoleonic times.

Worth an hour, not much more.
































Monday, 8 April 2019

Selling Some 28mm Painted Prussian Napoleonic Infantry

All on a 5 day auction - free postage in the UK,  if you win more than one auction and you're outside the uk please wait for me to combine postage - it should save you a good bit (overseas postage is pricey)

Line Infantry auction is here

https://ebay.to/2G7NI4V

3 x Landwehr auctions here

https://ebay.to/2OWuH8f









Selling - 28mm Young Guard - Flanquer Chasseurs Painted 2 battalions

  Here's the link if you want to have a look :  They're the fab green uniforms (with higher officer wearing their blue Middle Guard ...