| KoppiBlogger | 04 Jul 2021 2:14 a.m. PST |
….Here's forty shillings on the drum. For those who volunteer to come, To 'list and fight the foe today. Over the Hills and far away…." English version at the end of the text. Please scroll down. link
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| BillyNM | 04 Jul 2021 2:30 a.m. PST |
So, the South Essex lost their 'Eagle' did they? How careless of them. |
| Fred Mills | 04 Jul 2021 4:28 a.m. PST |
Very nice. Also did not know of Adkins' Sharpe books, which just went on the list! Thanks. |
| Robert le Diable | 04 Jul 2021 4:56 a.m. PST |
I admire the way you deliberately choose to think of Napoleon finally being beaten by a super-hero (similar to the "James Bond" idea, I mean), rather than by "a politician who happened to be a general". And well painted figures, too. |
robert piepenbrink  | 04 Jul 2021 5:09 a.m. PST |
You need to brigade the South Essex with the West Yorkshire Fusiliers, the Royal Loamshires and the Bruce & Wallace Highlanders. |
| Jeffers | 04 Jul 2021 7:57 a.m. PST |
What about the 3rd Foot & Mouth or the 43rd Deserters? You could also have cavalry support from Roper's Light Horse. |
| 42flanker | 04 Jul 2021 8:52 a.m. PST |
The Mudshires may only have been a lowly line regiment with their 'Dingleberry' coloured facings but they knew how die quietly and neatly, and each man apologised to the Colonel first. |
| Robert le Diable | 04 Jul 2021 10:16 a.m. PST |
I admire the way you deliberately choose to think of Napoleon finally being beaten by a super-hero (similar to the "James Bond" idea, I mean), rather than by "a politician who happened to be a general". And we'll painted figures, too. |
| robert piepenbrink | 04 Jul 2021 12:20 p.m. PST |
The South Essex is a literary regiment, and I've brigaded them with good solid literary regiments: The West Yorkshire Fusiliers from Dalziel and Pascoe, the Royal Loamshires from Bulldog Drummond, and the B&W Highlanders from The First Hundred Thousand. No television. No satire. Two long fictional series and a war novel. (Truthfully, I'd swap out the B&W Highlanders if someone has a fictional regiment of foot tied to a longer series. Possibly the Mavericks, but I hate to give up the kilts.) |
| KoppiBlogger | 04 Jul 2021 3:47 p.m. PST |
Thanks all. "So, the South Essex lost their 'Eagle' did they?" AAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. What a mistake. I think I was in my Vive L'Empereur mood. ;-)))) Corrected. |
| Footslogger | 05 Jul 2021 3:37 a.m. PST |
To the South Esssex's brigade you could add the 106th Foot (Adrian Goldsworthy's series) with red facings, and in support, Alan Mallinson's 6th Light Dragoons (the Matthew Hervey series). |
| 42flanker | 05 Jul 2021 7:53 a.m. PST |
Some might argue that the Highland regiments in Stewart of Garth's 'Sketches of the Highlanders' (1822) are more literary entities than historical. |
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