"C18th Grenades in action" Topic
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| 42flanker | 14 May 2015 12:04 a.m. PST |
Greetings- I should be grateful if anyone could guide me to first-hand accounts of early C18th grenadiers (or late C17th) actually using grenades in action. Details of grenade drill would also be useful. Many thanks |
| Supercilius Maximus | 14 May 2015 3:48 a.m. PST |
As regards drill, I can't recall the exact title, but the National Army Museum in London sells (or used to) a small, A5-ish booklet describing a set of contemporary pictures illustrating the grenadier's manual of arms. The uniforms were post-Marlburian (1730s/40s), but the text would still be useful for your purposes I would think. I have a copy somewhere, but can't find it for the life of me – sorry. |
| Supercilius Maximus | 14 May 2015 3:57 a.m. PST |
I think it might be called "The Grenadiers Exercise of the Grenado in His Majesty's First Foot Guards" by Bernard Lens III. |
| Mako11 | 15 May 2015 3:49 p.m. PST |
Not grenadiers, but supposedly Blackbeard and his men used them, in his last fight against Maynard and crew, in a pre-vessel-boarding attack, back in 1718. |
| andygamer | 21 Jun 2015 8:10 p.m. PST |
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looks at a fast-assembly naval kit for the Age of Sail.
