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.

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.

 

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.

Painted Prussian 28mm

Update - these were relisted all starting at 99p per auction....  7 day auction

Line infantry

Landwher  13th Regt

Landwher  14th Regt

Landwher 

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

New Perry Plastic French napoleonic Infantry 1807 to 14 3 UPs at Salute

Fantastic figures on the Perry Stand at Salute

More Napoleonic Blog Post - a months worth of things I've seen

March ended well with this fab post showing a 28 mm battalion at 1 to 1 scale.  If you click the link the post of actually mostly about Brexit.

According to My Very Own Spanish Ulcer blog, this is his idea of a smaller battalion...

I really enjoyed this game from the 1809 campaign. It's shows what you can do with ho/oo plastics and some good old fashioned gloss painting

Good to see a review of General d'Armee (see my first thoughts here) 

First impressions are very positive, especially the command control /  aid d'camp system.  It's an elegant form of command friction which introduces command risk but also doesn't totally throw the game if ones luck is really bad for a turn.  I like it a lot.

Barry's Redoubt isn't dead yet and has been painting.

Napoleonic Blog Posts - another round up including Waterloo 28mm

You can't go at all wrong with a Waterloo re-fight ...

This one from Jabbas Wargaming is an absolute doozy... go and drool.

and their is so much more eye candy on the New Buckenham club's Facebook page

Elsewhere...

Wonderful Russo-Ottoman war collections out on the table here.

The Northumbrian Wargamer has finished this 8th regiment from the Revolutionary Wars

Some truly gorgeous Poles from Murawski Miniatures in this wonderful encounter game on the Chasseur blog.

Blunders on the Danube is showing off early empire troops 

Miniatures Minions writes about some old school 20mm Bavarians - including the perils of eBay.

and on the same subject the HintonHunt blog gets an ADC for Blucher (I'm a total sucker for these figures) 

The Battle of Danholm 1807 is emerging form the worktable Finns and Swedes. It's brilliant to

have such a range of ranges now, you'd think. But many of these are conversions, including from AWI - mostly Perry.