This siege concluded today 140 years ago. Lots of photos of the Imperial Guard here.
Saturday 23 October 2010
Friday 22 October 2010
Vanson Joseph-Emile (1825-1900)
The general of the French army who was the first director of the Musee de l'Armee drew some of the pictures featured in the article on Paco's site has written a book. Crimee, Italie, Mexique : lettres de campagnes, 1854-1867, precedees d'une notice biographique / General Vanson
Thursday 21 October 2010
Wednesday 20 October 2010
New Infantry project
Paco explains the new French 1854-60 project on his blog. Exciting stuff indeed.
Tuesday 19 October 2010
Rifle Brigade in the Crimea
WATERCOLOURS OF LT THE HON H H CLIFFORD VCfrom the RGJ Museum
If you want to know more about the Brigade in the Crimea read Memoir of Captain M.M. Hammond, Rifle Brigade
St Albans Raid 1864
This audacious raid took place today in Vermont. A 1954 movie starring Van Heflin was based on this incident.
Monday 18 October 2010
Defence of Chateaudun 18 October 1870
Today is the anniversary of the defence of Chateaudun in 1870, during the Loire campaign. This was true “people’s war”, the defence being conducted by the francs-tireurs of Colonel Lipowski, one of the best of the French irregular units, supported by the gardes nationaux, the local militia. The action was marked by ferocious street fighting, which left a third of the town in ruins.
Fighting in the main square of Chateaudun.
The fountain in the main square at Chateaudun today. It is clearly visible in the above picture.
A German view of the street fighting at Chateaudun.
Sunday 17 October 2010
" escrime à la baionnette"
Some Chasseur images from André... thanks!
They are " escrime à la baionnette" from the 1845 "Ordonnance sur les exercices et les manoeuvres des chasseurs d'Orléans".
Also from the same manual, the graph showing a chasseur bataillon in full battle order, with the positions of the clairons, officers, etc.
Austro-Hungarian infantry at Solferino
French language page of information on the army of 1859. Contains some of these really charming illustrations.
Waterloo to Mons Airfix project
I like this strand of blogging a lot. Basically he is taking the old Airfix figures and treating them as the ultimate old school wargame (which of course they are to a certain demographic) and it's going very well. Check it out here
I don't want you to think I was spoilt as a child but I had this Hornby HO train which occasionally made an appearance on the battlefield alongside the Airfix.
Interesting photo
This photo was posted on the 100eme Facebook page and I thought it an amusing image. As to the date etc?
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