Minden 2007
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Minden 2007
A few pictures from an extremely hot and sweaty Minden.
Firstly the garrison encamped within the grounds of the fort.
Next the redcoats making strategic use of the shade in their camp.
Firstly the garrison encamped within the grounds of the fort.
Next the redcoats making strategic use of the shade in their camp.
Pulteney's Regiment
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Followed by a discussion as to whether the sentries should face inwards or outwards, then what happens when you get it wrong!
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Pulteney's Regiment
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Not just a military weekend, there were civilians taking part as well.
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Pulteney's Regiment
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I always wondered how King Louis' boys kept those white coats even passably clean on campaign.
"I hold it to be of great prudence for men to abstain from threats and
insulting words towards any one, for neither the one nor the other in any
way diminishes the strength of the enemy." Niccolo Machiavelli
insulting words towards any one, for neither the one nor the other in any
way diminishes the strength of the enemy." Niccolo Machiavelli
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Don't think they did particulally.....just like ours,let the mud dry & brush it off.....mind You,only the French could have a"Royal" colour of a white cross on a white ground...........
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Send me up in Grand River
Steering by star and sun".
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And only George Washington could mistake the flag of truce for the Royal colour and shoot a parley party.steve stanley wrote:Don't think they did particulally.....just like ours,let the mud dry & brush it off.....mind You,only the French could have a"Royal" colour of a white cross on a white ground...........
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Got to say the bleaching effects of the sun also help keep your whites white.
Looks like it was a fantastic event Mark.
Young men have often been ruined through owning horses, or through backing them, but never through riding them: unless of course they break their necks, which, taken at a gallop, is a very good death to die
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Some more event pictures can be found online here
http://www.live-foto.com/bildergalerien ... /index.htm
(http://www.live-foto.com/bildergalerien ... /index.htm)
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http://www.live-foto.com/bildergalerien ... /index.htm
(http://www.live-foto.com/bildergalerien ... /index.htm)
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Look into my eyes and repeat after me
I really need another period
I really need another period
I really need another period
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I really need another period

I really need another period

I really need another period

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I think the lass in the red jacket and tricorn (with the fan) should join RaT.


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I doubt it Tod, have you thought about trying to get Steve to wear a frock instead?
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Obviously the sun got to you, or the biscuit tin entertainment was lacking.
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I really need another period
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Tod wrote:I think the lass in the red jacket and tricorn (with the fan) should join RaT.



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Soon to be appearing at BeltonSteve of RaT wrote:Tod wrote:I think the lass in the red jacket and tricorn (with the fan) should join RaT.
I can't comment as the wife occasionally reads this forum
But on a statistical point of view, we have no women in red jackets and three cornered hats with fans, so there is an opening.

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Have you considered the 'Irish Brigade' Look just like the English but have the annoying habit of shooting at us.Bloody English, Bloody French I'd heave the lot of youse into the Boyne if i had me way. Mutter,mutter, mutter.....and don't get me started on those Cork men.
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Appart from the French uniforms and equipment that isGerry wrote: Have you considered the 'Irish Brigade' Look just like the English.

Young men have often been ruined through owning horses, or through backing them, but never through riding them: unless of course they break their necks, which, taken at a gallop, is a very good death to die
http://www.16ld.org
http://www.16ld.org
But they are red 'French uniforms' with coloured facings and leather belts, in which the differences are not obvious until it's too late - as Pulteney's discovered on St Lucia in 1781.Appart from the French uniforms and equipment that is
'Count Dillon reached the barracks at six o' clock in the morning, and found a part of the garrison exercising on the parade. The enemy, imposed upon by the uniform of the Irish brigade, were soon undeceived by a fire from the latter within pistol shot.'
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Ahh, now the 1776 uniforms on were made a little more up to date - what with having the lapels and the such as every other European army had been using since the 1720's.Gerry wrote:But they are red 'French uniforms' with coloured facings and leather belts, in which the differences are not obvious until it's too late - as Pulteney's discovered on St Lucia in 1781.Appart from the French uniforms and equipment that is
'Count Dillon reached the barracks at six o' clock in the morning, and found a part of the garrison exercising on the parade. The enemy, imposed upon by the uniform of the Irish brigade, were soon undeceived by a fire from the latter within pistol shot.'
(I think the uniform changed in 1776, 1777, and 1779)
In 1781 the most notible difference would have been that the French uniforms had the bayonet included in the cartouche strapping.
I also heard of a British unit that escaped the Americans during their Insurection by turning their coats inside out and pretending to be French.
But the Irish of the WAS and 7YW were more like the British of the late Marlburian period - who said the French were the leading light in fashion?
Young men have often been ruined through owning horses, or through backing them, but never through riding them: unless of course they break their necks, which, taken at a gallop, is a very good death to die
http://www.16ld.org
http://www.16ld.org
Speaking off the cuff as I'm at work and have no reference books to hand, that could also be quite like WAS and 7YW British with skirts turned down and lapels folded across for bad weather ? as we have been known to do when masquerading as a Marlburian unit.But the Irish of the WAS and 7YW were more like the British of the late Marlburian period - who said the French were the leading light in fashion?
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I'm at work to, and running from memory (oh dear, oh dear oh dear)Gerry wrote:
Speaking off the cuff as I'm at work and have no reference books to hand, that could also be quite like WAS and 7YW British with skirts turned down and lapels folded across for bad weather ? as we have been known to do when masquerading as a Marlburian unit.
The standard French justaucorps changed little from the WSS to the WAS to the 7YW
The coat got lighter in colour and the cuffs smaller, and in the 1740 the coats generally had 18 button fronts (from collar to hem), and in the 1750's this changed to a 9 button front (from collar to crotch) and usually with the addition of an epaulet on the left shoulder.
Some French units did have lapels, but they were in the minority till 1776
Early C18th

1740's Marine

1756

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Young men have often been ruined through owning horses, or through backing them, but never through riding them: unless of course they break their necks, which, taken at a gallop, is a very good death to die
http://www.16ld.org
http://www.16ld.org
Some more pics of Minden 2007:
http://www.minden1759.de/Galerie.html
http://www.kircher-photographics.com/bi ... inden07cd/
Hope to see you again in 2009!
http://www.minden1759.de/Galerie.html
http://www.kircher-photographics.com/bi ... inden07cd/
Hope to see you again in 2009!
Und kommt der große Friederich und klopft sich auf die Hosen...dann rennt die ganze Reichsarmee, Panduren und Franzosen!
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