Dutch cavalry of the FR

Some prints of the Dutch cavalry in the FR.
The plates were made by C.R. Coopman

Victorious figures -additions

We always like addition to ranges, be it figures or equipment.
We noticed some equipmens additions at Victorious Miniatures as limbers, various cart horses, British water cart, and ammo wagon

 

Trent additions

Trent has some new additions to their "Internal range" which incorporates Chouans and Vendean figures  with more characters, musket armed figures and casualties. Of course it is possible that I missed them on an earlier occasion.

Also some Tyrolean figures are in their Austrian range but as Andreas Hofer is represented this would mean the 1809 campaign instead of the FR period. Probably you could use them for the late FR period, 1799 comes to mind.

Which reminds me that I have some hundred unpainted 15mm Old Glory Tyroleans on the unpainted tin mountain.

And for some who need British generals for their FR period armies, Trent also has:

general Dundas

general John Moore

Abercromby

the Old Duke of York

Take a look at the Trent figures; there nice.

Plates by Langendijk: Crossing of the Waal 1795

Two plates, a little bit unclear, about the retreat across the Waal of the British/Hanovarian army. They used the existing ship-bridge of Nijmegen so they did not need to build a pontonbridge.
During the retreat, afaik, the bridge was destroyed before all troops could cross.

And of course, the French also crossed the Waal but as is was so cold, they could use the ice on the rivers to cross. In this situation a Dutch waterline was of no use.
In former times the ice would be broken by troops but the Dutch army was so demoralised that they only thought of retreating. 

French revolutionary armies-Emperor Toad's

Although Emperor Toads'Emporium already longer exists, they have had a kickstarter for a new serie of figures about the French Revolution in 28mm.
Promised is, that these will be available in the Summer of 2018.
Various poses of French infantry, be it in the Kasket (as existing "white" infantry or old Royal army) or in bicorne (as "blue" infantry). Also grenadiers will be available.

The figures are sculpted by Michael Percy and look very good.
We hope the range will grow quickly (and Dutch for the 1792-1795 campaigns will become available).
Some pictures are underneath:

PS: due to a bad experience with another kickstarter we haven't  participated but of course we will buy as soon as they will be available for sale.

Victorious Miniatures 28mm FR figures

When loooking for British figures for the French Revolution era, a new manufacturer brought out figures for the British army for the 1793-1795, 1799-1800 and of course the colonial batttles of the FR era.
Infantry is available in bicorn and round hat, centre and flank compannies. Also highlanders and artillerie are available as are twe generals. No cavalry as yet.
These are looking very nice. Some pictures underneath.

French infantry standard 1793

In the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam they have a French Standard of 1793. Unknown is the unit as the number position is not filled in., So if this is a genuine flag I don't know. But he's pretty.

The flag is 2.16m * 1.80 meter.

Dutch Army of 1794 (2)

For the campaign of 1794 a field army was organised in which only a part of the total armystrenth was available. This was partly because of the losses in earlier campaigns but also because the Dutch army needed numerous garrisons for the cities of the Netherlands.
The line infantry was composed of battalions of 6 companies (out of 12 companies of each regiment) plus converged grenadiers of the various regiments (2 grenadiercompanies of 3 regiments formed a grenadier battalion).
The line field battalions had a strength of 504 men (guard battalions), 510 men (Swiss) or 432 men (other battlions. The grenadier battalions had a strength of 384 men.
Mind you, this was the official strength at the start of the 1794 campaign and quickly these numbers became less through losses, sickness and desertion.
The field battalions were as follows:

LINIE INFANTERIE	Infanterie veldbataljons
regiment	veld bataljon Gardes	veld        bataljon Zwitsers	veld        bataljon linie
Naam
Hollandse Gardes	6
Oranje Gelderland			6
Oranje Stad en Lande en Drenthe			6
Oranje Nassau 2			6
Van Maneil			6
Van Dopff			6
Von Wilcke (vh d'Envie)			6
Van Welderen			6
Bosc de la Calmette			6
Bedaulx			6
Hessen-Darmstadt			6
De Petit			6
van Plettenberg			6
van Wartensleben (vh van Pabst)			6
Waldeck 1e regiment			6
Zwitserse Gardes	6
Hirzel		6
Stockar de Neuforn		6
De Gumoëns		6
Schmid		6
May		6
VELDLEGER
compagnieën	12	30	84
bataljons	2	10	14
officieren en manschappen	504	510	432
	1.008	5.100	6.048	12.156

GRENADIERS	Each 2 companies of the following 3 regiments (a total of 384 men or a grand total of 3.456 grenadiers)
grenadierbattalion:
van Raesfeldt	Van Maneil	Douglas (mariniers)	Bentinck
Von Buseck	Van Dopff	Van Brakell	De Thouars (vh van Quadt)
Van Dongen	Oranje Gelderland	Oranje Vriesland	Oranje Stad en Lande en Drenthe
Mollenbruyn	van Plettenberg	van Baden	Nassau-Usingen
Van Plettenberg	De Schepper	Bedaulx	van Nijvenheim
Prinz von Reusz	van Wartensleben (vh van Pabst)	von Geusau (vh Wiguer, vh Baden)	Westerlo (mariniers)
Prins von Hessen-Philipsthal	Des Villates	Van Welderen	Bosc de la Calmette
Van Panhuijs	De Bons	van Mönster	Stuart
Van Solms	Oranje Nassau 1	Oranje Nassau 2	W.F. Erfprince van Orange en Nassau

LICHTE INFANTERIE
5e bataljon Waldeck	280
Bataljon Walen van Perez	280
Bataljon Jagers van Bylandt	198
Korps van Damas	250
Korps van Béon	494
Korps van Mathieu	277
VELDLEGER	1779

Dutch Army of 1794 (1)

The Dutch army in the 1794 campaign is described in the book by FHA Sabron: "De oorlog van 1794-1795 op het grondgebied van de Republiek der Vereenigde Nederlanden" (2 volumes).
Together with information from some other Dutch books, the following information can be given.

The total infantry (line and light) of the Dutch States in 1794 were as underneath.
The first column gives the identification of the regiment which was on various items of equipment as wagons etc.
The 3rd column gives the name of the province which paid for the regiment or it was paid by the States General (Staten).
The fouth column gives the nationality as: nothing mentioned: Dutch, D = Duits (German), ZW=Zwitsers (Swiss), W=Waals (Wallon), I=Immigranten (French immigrants).
Each regiment had 14 companies in 2 battalions or per battalion a company of grenadiers and 6 of musketeers.
An exception was the Swiss Guard which had 8 big companies in one battalion although in the field they probably use a 2 battalions formation, each of 4 companies

	LINIE INFANTERIE
	regiment			compagnie(en) per regiment in 2 bataljons
afkorting	Naam	Repartitie van	afkomst	musketeers	grenadiers
R.H.G.	Hollandse Gardes	Staten		12	2
R.O.G.	Oranje Gelderland	Gelderland		12	2
R.O.F.	Oranje Vriesland	Vriesland		12	2
R.O.St. en L.	Oranje Stad en Lande en Drenthe	Stad en Lande		12	2
R.O.N. no 1.	Oranje Nassau 1	Holland	D	12	2
R.O.N. no 2.	Oranje Nassau 2	Holland	D	12	2
R.O.N. no 3.	W.F. Erfprince van Orange en Nassau	Holland	D	12	2
R.No.1	De Schepper	Vriesland		12	2
R.No.2	Van Maneil	Stad en Lande		12	2
R.No.3	Van Dopff	Holland		12	2
R.No.4	Von Wilcke (vh d'Envie)	Holland		12	2
R.No.5	Des Villates	Holland		12	2
R.No.6	Van Welderen	Gelderland		12	2
R.No.7	De Bons	Holland		12	2
R.No.8	Bosc de la Calmette	Holland		12	2
R.No.9	Van Randwyck	Holland		12	2
R.No.10	Van Brakell	Zeeland		12	2
R.No.11	opgeheven (vh van Dam)
R.No.12	Bedaulx	Holland		12	2
R.No.13	De Thouars (vh van Quadt)	Holland		12	2
R.No.14	Hessen-Darmstadt	Holland	D	12	2
R.No.15	De Petit	Holland		12	2
R.No.16	van Mönster	Utrecht		12	2
R.No.17	van Plettenberg	Vriesland		12	2
R.No.18	van Wartensleben (vh van Pabst)	Holland		12	2
R.No.19	Douglas (mariniers)	Zeeland		12	2
R.No.20	von Geusau (vh Wiguer, vh Baden)	Overijssel		12	2
R.No.21	Westerlo (mariniers)	Holland		12	2
R.No.22	van Nijvenheim	Holland		12	2
R.No.23	Stuart	Holland		12	2
R.No.24	Bentinck	Holland		12	2
R.F.V.W. no 1.	Waldeck 1e regiment	Holland	D	12	2
R.F.V.W. no 2.	Waldeck 2e regiment	Holland	D	12	2
	van Baden	Holland	D	12	2
R.S.G.	Saxen-Gotha	Holland	D	12	2
R.W.	Nassau-Usingen	Holland	W	12	2
	Zwitserse Gardes	Staten	ZW	8
R.Z. no 1.	Hirzel		ZW	12
R.Z. no 2.	Stockar de Neuforn		ZW	12
R.Z. no 3.	De Gumoëns		ZW	12
R.Z. no 4.	Schmid		ZW	12
R.Z. no 5.	May		ZW	12
	LICHTE INFANTERIE
	5e bataljon Waldeck	Holland	D
G.W.	Bataljon Walen van Perez	Holland	W
	Bataljon Jagers van Bylandt
	Korps van Damas		I
	Korps van Béon		I
	Korps van Mathieu		I

Dutch infantry flags (2)

In 1752 the Dutch army was reorganised so that all infantry regiments, be it National, German, Scottish or Swiss, would have two battalions (exept the Wallooon regiment who kept its 3 battalions for some years). The Scotisch regiments became national regiments in 1783 but no there was no change in their organisation of 7 companies per battalion.
The Walloon regiment lost its third battalion around 1790 (as guard Walloon battalion which used as a light unit) and the Walloon regiment consists of two battalions as other regiments.

Every line battalion had 7 companies: 1 grenadier and 6 fusilier.
An exception to this rule were the Swiss regiments:
- the guard Swiss had 4 companies per battalion
- the Swiss line had 6 companies
Guard and Swiss line had the grenadiers included in the line companies so had no seperate  grenadier companies although it is possible that in the field they combined their grenadiers into a company per battalion.
Existing regiments in 1752 were combined into this new structure or disbanded.

Although I have found no definitive proof, I think that this reorganisation led to new flags for the regiments but it is possible that at first the regiment which existed and into another regiment were amalgamated kept its old flag.

The new regiment now had two flags per battalion and mostly had:
- the colonels flag in white. The flags we know are ecru or an off white colour and bore:
      x mostly the coat of arms of the province who paid for the regiment (see underneath),
      x sometimes the coat of arms of  the States General of the Republic itself (as these were sometimes also the paymaster of a regiment),
      x the Nassau and/or Orange regiments and the Hollandse garde probably had the Prince of Oranges heraldric weapon and     
      x maybe sometimes the coat of arms of the proprietor (a lot of flags are not known so who knows).
- the regimental flag(s) which was coloured and bore probably the colonel/proprietor coat of arms. In the case that the Stadholder was proprietor, these flags were probably orange.

The Swiss guard regiment was again an exception as they had a flag for each company so four flags per battalion of which one was the colonels and three the companie flag. (it is not known if all these colours were carried in the field).

The Swiss line regiments had according to the reglement of 1791 still 6 flags per battalion (it is not known if all these colours were carried in the field).

Colonels'/Provincial flags
Afaik up to this moment the flag of the province was white (or "ecru" coloured, an off-white colour) with the coat of arms of the province mostly on a field of throphies like flags, cannons etc with the banner of the provincial motto and various small extras as grenades in the corners of the flag or arms with swords coming out of a cloud.
Sometimes both sides of the flags are the same but a flag is known with on one side the provincial coat of arms and on the other side the Republic coat of arms.

Of some provinces, flags of the revolutionary period are known and I will shown them here in the near future.
The colonels flags of the swiss regimetns are partly known and are described in a book of the 1780 period.

In the regiments of which the Stadholder, the Prince of Orange was proprietor, the colonels flag was afaik also white/off-white and bore the heralcic coat of arms of the prince of Orange.

Regimental flags
The regimental flags of the colonel/propretor, probably coloured, are very rare (better-none exists anymore) as these flags were taken by the colonel as the regiment was disbanded or the regiment received a new propietor. Also almost no prints exists of Dutch flags (at least I don't know) of this period.
Colours and coat of arms of these flags are mostly not known and no pictures/prints exists. Only guessing and deducting can be done.
For the swiss flags some pictures exits; I will show them in the near future.

Foreign troops
Foreign troops had their own flags, if I have them, I will show them in the future.