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Post by rebel on Feb 18, 2017 10:34:50 GMT
In a blatant piece of self promotion, anyone going to the Osprey website can now see two of the colour plates from the book.
The cover shows Dillon's regiment charging the Allied lines whilst a preview post shows the French Carabiniers engaging the front of the Allied column.
The "unseen third plate" is less of an action shot, but more of an overview of the French defence works (taken from the original French sketches).
Enjoy,
Mike.
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Post by Keith on Feb 18, 2017 14:50:19 GMT
Wonderful. But come on Mike, a link sir, a link!
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Post by damnitz on Feb 18, 2017 21:23:26 GMT
I preordered it today together with other interesting books from Osprey (Ramilies for example). I will surely write a short review.  |
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Post by damnitz on Jun 13, 2017 9:26:53 GMT
The book arrived last week. I read it. But I have too much to do now (reenactment and Family). No surprise, that it is a lot more detailed than the french book...
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Post by rebel on Jun 19, 2017 17:36:55 GMT
Damnitz,
hope you enjoyed it - Have also been under the "cosh" with work family and - strangely enough - researching the new book which will not only cover Saxe's 1745 campaign (up until the fall of Brussels) as well as giving an overview of events prior, but will have a large number of appendices ....one is a detailed analysis of the British Train, whilst one am working on at the moment is a transcript of the Ingoldsby court martial.....
On the other hand, if you didn't enjoy it, then any constructive criticism is always greatly received.
All the best.
Mike
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Post by damnitz on Jun 20, 2017 8:21:01 GMT
On the other hand, if you didn't enjoy it, then any constructive criticism is always greatly received. All the best. I had written a review: honoursofwar.com/thread/398/michael-mcnally-fontenoy-cumberlands-bloody
We will Play the battle, when I painted Gardes Francaises etc..
Since last week I'm more interested in the battle of Melle although this should be difficult to recreate on the TT. But it's of a good size.
In the best of all worlds Osprey would publish books about all leaders of the WAS in Flandres (Noailles, Waldeck, Prinz Karl, Bathyany, Ligonier, Cumberland).
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Post by defoix on Nov 25, 2017 9:48:30 GMT
Great book, really enjoyed it. A battle I've always been fascinated by, but know little of. Thank you Mike
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Post by adamus on Jan 9, 2018 8:52:26 GMT
I agree a great book although I would love to see one on Minden.
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Post by westmarcher on Feb 28, 2018 6:05:39 GMT
Currently re-visiting this book. I'm sure this puzzled me the first time round but when reading about the formations and deployment of foot units in the opposing armies, I was (again) surprised to read Mike stating that
The British infantry would have formed in longer, shallower formations ... whilst the Dutch and possibly Hanoverians would have deployed deeper ..
As for the French -
... battalions would typically form up between four and six ranks deep ....
The battle was fought in 1745 during the War of the Austrian Succession yet it was as if I was reading about formations in the War of the Spanish Succession approximately 40 years earlier. I was under the impression that all European line units by this time, regardless of nationality, would have deployed in lines of 3 ranks deep. I think it was possibly Chandler(?) in his book on Marlborough that gave me the impression that even some French battalion commanders were starting to deploy their units in 3 ranks before the end of the Spanish Succession War.
What are everyone else's views? Can anyone cite any evidence to confirm when the various major powers moved to the 3 rank system?
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Post by damnitz on Feb 28, 2018 13:40:19 GMT
It seams all somehow vague.
Now about the hanoverians. This contemporary picture from a parade shows them clearly 4 ranks deep. de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurhannoversche_Armee#/media/File:Kurhannoversches_Infanterie-Regiment_von_Behr_1735_Revue_bei_Bemerode_1579x1326.jpg It's one of the finest pictures for getting an impression of hanoverian uniforms etc. because musicians, musketeers, grenadiers and officers are shown here. I assume that they were formed the same 10 years later.
Informations about the dutch army during the 1740s are hardly to get and it seams that the author didn't searched for it.
Jeff Berry on obscure Battles gives the dutch 3, the hanoverians 4 and the british 3 ranks deep. The French have 4 ranks in his blogpost about Fontenoy.
I remember pictures from a 1720s Austrian source where the Austrians were lined up 4 ranks deep. Perhaps it was not uncommon for the age. |
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Post by westmarcher on Feb 28, 2018 14:36:15 GMT
That's terrific, damnitz. Thanks for that. What a superb picture, also! Reminds me of a scene from Barry Lyndon.
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