"95th Rifles questions" Topic
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| taskforce58 | 19 May 2013 1:47 p.m. PST |
Regarding the Italeri's 1/72 plastic 95th Rifles figures (pictures can be found on plastic soldier review here: link ) Is the proportion of the two types of headgears (shako and the bonnet?/forage cap?) depicted in the set representative of real life, especially during the Peninsular War period? Also, how often did the 95th fought as formed infantry instead of as skirmishers? |
| MajorB | 19 May 2013 2:27 p.m. PST |
Is the proportion of the two types of headgears (shako and the bonnet?/forage cap?) depicted in the set representative of real life, especially during the Peninsular War period? From the site you linked:
"A few of the men are wearing their forage cap (of a style first introduced in 1813), which is very unlikely during battle." Also, how often did the 95th fought as formed infantry instead of as skirmishers? Rarely, I suspect. |
| David Brown | 20 May 2013 1:40 a.m. PST |
TF58, Both battalions of 95th fought in close order (in the main) at Waterloo. Though as the Major with the unfortunate condition suggests rarely in the Peninsular campaign. DB |
| A Quinn Martin Production | 20 May 2013 3:35 a.m. PST |
In one of the Peninsular memoires a riflemen (it may have been Harris, I'm not sure) wrote along the lines of:
For troops that fought habitually in skirmish order it was always good to see the solid lines of the 43rd and 52nd in support.
Agree on Waterloo. |
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gets started with Flintloque.