By Alan and Michael Perry TV presenter Ian Hislop clutching his 'research material' in the Perry's Wargames room during filming. It was the night before Christmas…well about 10 days before, when a maiden in distress popped up on The Miniatures Page forum. She was a researcher from a TV company making a...
“German” (more specifically Brunswick and Hesse Hanau) units served under both Burgoyne and St Leger during the 1777 campaign. Men from both states made up the left wing of Burgoyne’s army, under Baron Riedesel (note just plain old plain old, no “von”) and a few Hesse-Hanau jaeger joined St Leger’s...
24th charging - figures painted by Dave Woodward Old myths and new research often sit uneasily together, and the 30 years since the publication of the famous (and still very useful) Mollo/McGregor book Uniforms of the American Revolution have seen a considerable amount of new data unearthed – often quite literally – in...
ORDERS-OF-BATTLE APPENDIX 1 – The garrison of Fort Ticonderoga (as at June 28, 1777) 1st New Hampshire Regiment (Cilley’s)[24 officers, 6 staff, 24 sergeants, 12 drummers, 193 men present fit, 88 present sick, 113 on command]2nd New Hampshire Regiment (Hale’s)[28 officers, 5 staff, 31 sergeants, 13 drummers, 212 men present fit, 58...
By Brendan Morrissey [The author would like to express his unbounded gratitude to Eric Schnitzer, Senior Interpretive Ranger/Historian at Saratoga National Park, who has not only generously permitted the author to use so much of his own material on the subject of the Saratoga forces, but who also spent a great...
The Sudan 1883-85A Brief History and Uniform Guide By Michael Perry The war in the Sudan, as was the 1882 war in Egypt, one that Britain was reluctant to become involved in. El Mahdi (messiah) emerged in southern Sudan with an ever expanding mass of faithful Ansar (followers) which by early 1883...
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