""Runners for Marlborough" ?" Topic
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| grenadier corporal | 11 Nov 2020 6:28 a.m. PST |
The War of the Spanish Succession by Peter Dennis in the Paperboys on Campaign Series has two "Runners for Marlborough" – rather harlequin-like looking foot figures in white and blue with a red waist sash and a kind of jockey-cap in black, holding a brown cane.
I could not find any information on them in my books or on the Internet.
Therefore I'd like to ask here: who knows more?
Thank you for any clues. |
| 4DJones | 11 Nov 2020 6:43 a.m. PST |
It might be a joke of the totopolistic kind. |
| Son of MOOG | 11 Nov 2020 7:22 a.m. PST |
I seem to recall that they are depicted in the Osprey book "Marlborough's Army" and they were his personal servants. |
| Texaswalker | 11 Nov 2020 8:25 a.m. PST |
They are protrayed on the Marlborough tapestries at Blenheim Palace, which are frequently depicted in books. I'm guessing this might be the basis. |
| John Armatys | 11 Nov 2020 8:48 a.m. PST |
They are "running footmen" – see link |
| BillyNM | 11 Nov 2020 10:35 a.m. PST |
Front Rank do a figure – see link: link I think others may do as well…? |
| AussieAndy | 11 Nov 2020 12:38 p.m. PST |
As I recall, Marlborough used them to keep him informed about what was happening across his battlefields. Presumably, they were not mounted so that they were less obvious targets for the enemy (although that doesn't sit well with the uniforms) or it may have just been that Marlborough was too cheap to pay for horses. |
| grenadier corporal | 12 Nov 2020 12:14 a.m. PST |
Thank you all, especially John Armatys and BillyNM! |
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