
"Some Jacobites and foes for the '15" Topic
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Oh Bugger | 30 Apr 2017 5:08 p.m. PST |
I'm going to have a go at the '15 Rising with The Pikeman's Lament.
So these Roundway 15mm Highlanders and their friends and foes are getting an airing on my blog. I find them lovely figures and very much enjoyed painting the about 25 years ago. They have had a little re touch since. I'm happy to say you can still buy them, unlike some of their contemporaries. If you would like to see some old style lead click the link. withob.blogspot.co.uk |
Frederick  | 30 Apr 2017 5:39 p.m. PST |
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Gone Fishing | 30 Apr 2017 5:49 p.m. PST |
Ooh, I do love these. As someone always trying to resist a new period – and the Rebellion exerts an especially strong pull -it might have been better if I hadn't seen these characterful little fellows! Thank you for posting! |
Oh Bugger | 01 May 2017 1:33 a.m. PST |
Thank you lads. Roundway always made good figures but, as everyone said, single pose in a pack. Not so with the Highlanders, great variety, and whoever sculpted them put every thing into it, a labour of love. A good thing about TPL is the relatively small number of figures needed to try a new period. |
mildbill | 01 May 2017 4:43 a.m. PST |
The 15 is a great rebellion to play as I feel it was the Jacobites best chance for victory. Even odds in my view if the leadership was just better. The results of the 15 campaign on the Lowland Scots pretty much insured no future rebellion would have any Lowland Scot help. |
Oh Bugger | 01 May 2017 5:04 a.m. PST |
Yes it was probably their best chance. |
piper909  | 01 May 2017 11:02 a.m. PST |
Not forgetting the smaller and less famous uprising in Northumberland, that ended in ignominy at Preston. The '15 had a great chance for success had the Jacobite commanders not been such pinheads, and had James Stewart arrived in time to take decisive leadership (which was probably not in character anyway). Oh for a Montrose or Dundee! |
Oh Bugger | 01 May 2017 1:49 p.m. PST |
Not forgotten as long as this song is still sung piper. I head it in Alnwick more years ago than I care to remember. Albeit that, here in London town It is my fate to die, Oh! carry me to Northumberland, In my father's grave to lie; There chant my solemn requiem In Hexham's holy towers, And let six maids from fair Tynedale Scatter my grave with flowers. Yes, a Montrose or a Dundee would have made all the difference. |
piper909  | 01 May 2017 8:43 p.m. PST |
Ah, Earl Derwentwater's lament. I made a special trek to Dilston once simply because "Devil Water" by Anya Seton made such an impact on me. |
Oh Bugger | 02 May 2017 1:06 a.m. PST |
It is of course. Algernon Swinburne who's people were out in '15 also wrote a poem about it called A Jacobite Exile's Lament. I remember reading Anya Seton-but not that book. Clearly its worth a look if it took you to Dilston. |
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