Happy 2025

 This year will be the 40th anniversary of 1985 when I did my first reenactment. I saw a display in a shop window in Frome and got involved to do the 300 years of the Monmouth Rebellion. Here is a pic of my first event. 

                                      ECWS at Glastonbury 1985 pic by Mark Godwin

Seneffe 1674 (August)

Andret Efremov posted these depictions of this battle in 1674 

29 December Mulhouse 1674

Turenne's winter victory over the Imperialists. Wiki 

Pulteney's and Lambton's

 

Elizabethan Street Songs Tarleton's Jig

 Some music for your feasting

Pieter Bruegel the Elder - Peasant Wedding

 Hope your festive feasts are great

Portrait of a Grenadier officer

 By Martin de Meytens

Coming soon

 

Austrian School, 18th Century | Portrait of a boy in a hussar uniform

 

'Exact List of the Royal Confederate Army in Flanders, Commanded by the King of Great-Britain. In Four Lines; As it was Drawn up at Gerpines Camp, July 27 1691' Printed in Edinburgh, 1691.

 Description here

Berittener Oberhofstallmeister, aus: Sächsisch-polnische Hoftrachten und Militäruniformen beim Einzug 1719 in Dresden

 Mounted Oberhofstallmeister, from: Saxon-Polish Court Costumes and Military Uniforms at the Entry in Dresden in 1719

Merry Christmas

 This drawing by Sean O'Brogain (done many years ago) I like to post at this time of year.

Adriaen van Ostade (1610 - 1685) The Violinist, 1673,

 

First look at Prince August SYW British

 See more here/ I like them. 

Portrait of Ludolf Backhuysen II, Painter, in the Uniform of the Dragoons, Tibout Regters, 1748

 

"Troops at the Siege of Aire Sur La Lys, 1658 ". Snayers, Peeter

 

Drums and fifes

 Balthasar Küchler (1571-1611)

L'Exercice du tambour Callot Jacques (1592-1635)

 

Soldat au tambour Bosse Abraham (1602-1676) graveur, painter et dessinateur

 

Regiment von Itzenplitz grenadier.

 U.S, regiment for all things Prussian. Facebook. 

http://www.keithsayers.id.au/Toggenburg/Cover.htm

English language. Was a soldier in the Itzenplitz regiment

Infantry in Battle

 The book rewrites the story of combat in the eighteenth century by placing enlisted infantrymen and their experiences at centre stage while busting the myth that they were unthinking automata.

Read some of Alex's work on his blog here

50 years old next year. Barry Lyndon

 

Gaya's Traité des armes, 1678

 Full book here

SYW Hungarians in the US

 Nikolaus Esterhazy Infantry Grand encampment at Fort Massac 2024, Facebook page

Grenadier of Butyrski Regiment in 1710 by Sergei Letin

 It was the second of so called 'vyborny' regiments, tracing its history to 1656/1657. In 1700 it was under the command of Colonel James Gordon. Thanks to Michal Paradowski  for this. 

Today's anniversary Leuthen

 Wiki

Scanian War images by Göte Göransson

The Scanian War (Danish: Skånske krig, Swedish: Skånska kriget, German: Schonischer Krieg) was a part of the Northern Wars involving the union of Denmark–Norway, Brandenburg and Sweden. It was fought from 1675 to 1679 mainly on Scanian soil, in the former Danish provinces along the border with Sweden and in Northern Germany.
 

Lund 1676

 Fought today Wiki

Hat worn by Charles XI at Lund

See images of the Scanian War on my Pinterest page Pinterest

Louis XIV's paper soldiers

 I remember reading somewhere possibly a book about the Sun King that Louis had the world's first miniature armies painted for him by the artists of the day. Can anyone verify this? 

Article on the Dutch army in the War of Austrian Succession

 Here

Vicomte de Turenne (11 September 1611 – 27 July 1675)

 Anyone know anything about this image? Is there a colour version? Thanks.

Jean Baptiste Lully Marche pour le Régiment de Turenne

<  Here to listen on Youtube. 

Turenne at Mulhouse by Paul Dufresne

Turenne's Winter Campaign of 1674 Cecil Constant Philip Lawson (1880 - 1967)

 December 1674 (350 years ago) saw the commencement of Turenne's Winter campaign that ranks as one of his finest and almost his last. Wiki

Pic from here

Paul Sandby (1731-1809) The Duke of Cumberland's Hussars c. 1750 - c. 1765

 See here

The English military discipline. ... 1672.

 Unfortunately the illustrations don't accurately depict 1672.

Gerrit Berckheyde (Haarlem 1638-1698), Figures outside a coaching inn ...

 I like inn scenes. Artist wiki

Treaty of Westminster 1674

 In the interest of finding out what occurred 350 years ago in the Franco-Dutch war we are now in the post Treaty of Westminster which ended British involvement in the war. Except it didn't. Some came back but some regiments like the Ryal English stayed in the French army and were still recruiting in Britain and Ireland. See more

Cavalry officer 1680

 Anyone know what regiment he was in?

Thomas Lucy (1655–1684).
Artist:  Godfrey Kneller.
Year 1680

From the National Trust

Oil painting on canvas, Captain Thomas Lucy (c.1655-1684) and an unidentified enslaved groom by Godfrey Kneller (Lubeck 1646/9 – London 1723), signed and dated G. Kneller (GK in monogram) f.1680. A full-length portrait with Captain Thomas Lucy positioned slightly to the left and a black groom to the right. Lucy is wearing long buff-coloured jerkin with blue and gold embroidered cuffs, white and orange silk fringed sash, lace jabot and hat held in left hand. The groom, controlling a horse, has a metal collar around his neck and is dressed in blue and scarlet. A troop of cavalry can be discerned in the background. Captain Thomas Lucy (c.1655–84) inherited Charlecote in 1677 and served as Captain of the Household Guards during the Dutch Wars of the 1670s. Note on the unidentified groom: The unidentified groom wears a conspicuous metal collar, indicative of enslavement. It is not known if Kneller painted this unidentified figure from a model or if it is a portrait of a real groom in Captain Lucy's household.

Louis Duras 2nd Earl of Feversham

 Biog

On 10 feb 1673 a composite troop of cavalry was taken from the three troops of the Life Guards and sent to France under the command of Louis de Duras, Marquis de Blanquefort. This special troop remained in France until 1674, although Duras stayed in France to command the English Brigade after that date. From here

Jan Wyck Duke of Monmouth

 This is reckoned to be Maastricht. Possibly the Duke of Monmouth. 

Music at the Court of Charles II

 Do you have Spotify? Found this compilation that looked interesting. Here

The First Churchills (1969) trailer

 Here

This is a popular series. Wiki

The Troop Riding through History

 While on the subject of Restoration cavalry it would be churlish not to mention the Troop flying the flag for Baroque cavalry. Facebook page