Category Archives: Napoleonic French Army

“La Garde au Feu!”: My 15mm French Imperial Guard (Part 9: 2ème Éclaireurs (Éclaireurs-Dragons))

And normal service is resumed…  As I said, the sci-fi games and articles will just be a bonus and my normal tedious historical rambling will continue as normal. My surviving reader will no doubt remember Part 7 of this series, … Continue reading

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‘Onore e Patria’: The Army of Napoleon’s Kingdom of Italy (Part 1: Cavalry of the Royal Guard)

As much as I enjoy writing the scenarios, they’ve been expanding just lately to the size of a George R. R. Martin fantasy epic and my recent article about the Artillerie de la Marine wasn’t much shorter.  So let’s see … Continue reading

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“Á l’eau c’est l’heure!” (Part Deux): Régiments d’Artillerie de la Marine 1813-1814

“Á l’eau c’est l’heure!” “To the water, it is the time!” (Motto of the French Navy) (… probably…) Many, many moons ago, I wrote a profile of my Sailors (Marins) of Napoleon’s Imperial Guard (pictured below).  Initially formed in preparation … Continue reading

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‘Force à la Loi, Fidélité à l’Empereur!’: French Garde-Nationale 1814-1815

My surviving reader will probably remember that late last year I posted a scenario for the little-known last battle of the Napoleonic Wars, the Battle of La Souffel.  I then intended to put that scenario on as the W.A.S.P. Big … Continue reading

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“Bravoure et Bavière”: My 15mm Napoleonic Bavarian Army (Part 2)

In the last thrilling instalment, I was droning on about some new infantry regiments for my Napoleonic Bavarian army.  This time I’m going to cover some other bits and pieces; dragoons, generals and artillery. Above:  1. Dragoner-Regiment ‘Minucci’.  The lineage … Continue reading

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More Napoleonic French Allies (Saxon & Westphalian Cuirassiers)

My painting since November has been a bit random, consisting mostly of Napoleonic bits and pieces that I’ve been wanting to paint for a while, but kept getting knocked back while the big Seven Years War and American Civil War … Continue reading

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“Vive L’Empereur!”: A Unique (?) Tony Barton Napoleon Figure

While I was photographing the Imperial Guard cavalry last week, it occurred to me that I’d never properly photographed my Napoleon model.  He’s a rather unusual and possibly unique figure, sculpted by Tony Barton, the supreme talent behind the original … Continue reading

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“La Garde au Feu!”: My 15mm French Imperial Guard (Part 8: Young Guard Cavalry)

As regular readers of this blog might remember, in April 2020 I declared my French Imperial Guard to be finally finished! Hurrah! Vive l’Empereur! etc… So here are another two units of Imperial Guard cavalry… 🙂 “WTF?!” I hear you … Continue reading

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Some More French Napoleonic Allies

It’s all been a bit wordy and rather ‘Jungle Green’ around here just lately, so I thought I’d throw some Napoleonics in to brighten the place up a bit!  As has been mentioned here before, everyone needs friends and that’s … Continue reading

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The Army of the Duchy of Warsaw (Part 4: The Cavalry)

This is the last part of my series on my 15mm Army of the Duchy of Warsaw.  In Part 1 I covered the infantry, in Part 2 I looked at Prince Poniatowski and some of his generals and in Part … Continue reading

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