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Showing posts with label French Revolutionary Wars. Show all posts
Showing posts with label French Revolutionary Wars. Show all posts
Sunday, 7 May 2023
Wednesday, 20 January 2016
New blog from me
I have started a new blog on the late 18thc - the French Revolutionary wars etc. I know it's not that popular a period but I hope someone likes it. Here
Saturday, 16 January 2016
Thursday, 14 January 2016
Fore's New Manual and Platoon Exercises
zoomable image here https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:238882/
I have started a Facebook group for the late 18thc - Revolutionary wars etc - https://www.facebook.com/groups/515111121983469/
Saturday, 2 January 2016
Fishguard 1797
“Col Tate is to have the chief command of the legion; the Admiral will give the necessary orders to the officer commanding the naval force, which will proceed up St George’s Channel, and the landing is to be effected, if possible, in or near Cardigan Bay… The expedition under the command of Col Tate has in view three principal objects: the first is, if possible, to raise an insurrection in the country; the second is to interrupt and embarrass the commerce of the enemy: and the third is to prepare and facilitate the way for a descent by distracting the attention of the English government.
In all countries the poor are the class most prone to Insurrection, and this disposition Is to be forwarded by disturbing money and drink; by inveighing against the government as the cause of the public distress; by recommending and facilitating a rising to plunder the public stores and magazines, and the property of the rich, whose affluence Is the natural subject envy to the poor.” (Orders by General Hoche)
Read about it here
Wednesday, 11 November 2015
Saturday, 29 August 2015
Wednesday, 26 August 2015
HOMPESCH CHASSEURS
HOMPESCH CHASSEURS WERE CUTTING EDGE UNIT IN THE BRITISH ARMY:
When formed by Baron von Hompesch and attached to the Duke of York's army during the War of the First Coalition, Hompesch's Chasseurs were put under the command of a Polish-born emigré officer who also commanded the Baron's Hussars:Francis de Rottenburg. Rottenburg was a cutting-edge thinker on light infantry tactics, and authored the first book on the subject.
De Rottenburg was raised in what is now Gdańsk in Poland. He spent almost a decade in the French army which came to an end with the French Revolution. In December 1795, de Rottenburg joined the British army, serving in Hompesch's Hussars, a unit of foreign-born troops. In 1794 he helped to establish Hompesch's Light Infantry (Chasseurs), which later became part of the 5th Battalion of the 60th Regiment of Foot, the first rifle-armed unit of the British Army. De Rottenburg rose to the rank of lieutenant-colonel in the unit, and commanded it during the Irish Rebellion of 1798 and the capture of Suriname in 1799.
De
Rottenburg compiled a series of instructions on the training of light
troops. Originally written in German, the instructions were translated
into English and published by the War Office in 1798 as "Regulations for
the exercise of riflemen and light infantry". A number of other
editions followed, and the book was used by Sir John Moore in training
his Light Division. Rottenburg’s effect on military thinking suggests
that he was an officer of higher than average acuity with a concern for
thorough training uncommon among British officers.
Seen in the broader context of the evolution of rifle units in the British Army between the Seven Years' War and the early 19th century, Hompesch Chasseurs appear as the critical link between the German Jägers of the AWI and the British Rifle Brigade of the Napoleonic Wars.
Seen in the broader context of the evolution of rifle units in the British Army between the Seven Years' War and the early 19th century, Hompesch Chasseurs appear as the critical link between the German Jägers of the AWI and the British Rifle Brigade of the Napoleonic Wars.
Sunday, 27 July 2014
Bataille de Fleurus 1794
Thursday, 24 July 2014
Fleurus 1794
Friday, 11 October 2013
West India Regiment
From Thomsomfeld this depicts the 3rd West India Regiment fire on French troops on the Ile de Cabret or Terre d'en Haut, 1809 Watercolour by John Eckstein, 1810. More here
Thursday, 22 August 2013
In Humbert's Footsteps
They say
At the weekend, professional re-enactors from France, Ireland and the UK gathered in Mayo for a re-enactment of the landing of General Humbert in 1798. Here's what happened!
Incidentally Osprey have this recent Embleton Osprey for a cheap price - on the Osprey websiteWargame figures for this conflict are available from Trent Mniatures from Northstar.
Wednesday, 17 July 2013
French Revolutionary wars
Flanders Campaign 1793-1795
Sunday, 26 August 2012
Wednesday, 16 May 2012
Tuesday, 17 April 2012
San Juan 1797
Image from here
Tuesday, 21 February 2012
1797 Battle of San Juan: Reenactment 2011
This is an interesting reenactment film - the blurb says:
'In 1797 Sir Ralph Abercrombie led more than seven thousand British forces in an attempt to gain control of one the Spanish Empires key outposts in the New World; Puerto Rico. What the British failed to realize was the strength and conviction of a smaller band of men made up of Spanish soldiers, members of the Puerto Rican Fixed Regiment, local militia and citizens. This small band of men stood their ground with the help of the impregnable fortifications of El Morro Fort and San Cristobal Fort and defeated the much larger British forces. This battle became known as the 1797 Battle of San Juan'.
'In 1797 Sir Ralph Abercrombie led more than seven thousand British forces in an attempt to gain control of one the Spanish Empires key outposts in the New World; Puerto Rico. What the British failed to realize was the strength and conviction of a smaller band of men made up of Spanish soldiers, members of the Puerto Rican Fixed Regiment, local militia and citizens. This small band of men stood their ground with the help of the impregnable fortifications of El Morro Fort and San Cristobal Fort and defeated the much larger British forces. This battle became known as the 1797 Battle of San Juan'.
Monday, 1 August 2011
Ulster's 98
Here's a pic from my time in the 23rd RWF (I'm on the left) when we took part in the bicentennial of the 1798 rebellion in Northern Ireland. It was pretty hairy at times as people in the North are not used to having redcoats marching around their town as we did at Lisburne and we had people trying to grab our weapons.
Friday, 27 August 2010
Castlebar 1798
Today this victory over the British took place in the Irish Rebellion of 1798. The victorious army was a mixture of French and Irish forces. The victor was General Humbert who incidentally finished up fighting the British again at the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812 - in his general's uniform but with the rank of private.
Infuriated by the Kentuckians' fleeing, Jackson directed a French General, Jean Humbert, to cross the River and retake the American position. Humbert, who had fought under Napoleon and always appeared in his old uniform was delighted to accept the assignment. But in the U.S. ranks, he was serving as a volunteer private. Since Jackson neglected to give him written authority, American officers on the west bank refused to take orders from a man who was not a citizen, and Humbert returned angrily to Jackson's Headquarters ( From Union 1812: The Americans who Fought the Second War of Independence by A.J. Langguth)
Monday, 23 August 2010
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