Prestonpans 2013 photos

Here's the first set of photos to emerge. Looks like it was a good weekend...well done to all participants.

Prestonpans 1745

Today is the anniversary of this battle which took only 10 minutes. Wiki
The reenactment up in Edinburgh will presumably be a bit longer...
Listen to Hey Johnny Cope here

Cumberland's Culloden Army 1745-6

This Osprey by Stuart Reid and Gerry Embleton looks worth getting especially if you have the Redbox 1/72 Government troops.

I thought this chapter of interest: Foreign units: Hanoverian hussar escort – Hessian grenadiers and hussars – Dutch grenadiers and artillery – Swiss infantry

British cavalry in the mid 18th century David Blackmore

This book looks good - colour pics too. Must get one.

British Cavalry in the Mid-18th Century
David Blackmore
ISBN: 1-85818-503-3
112 pages (including over 30 colour plates)
168mm x 248mm
Hardback
£28.50


The British army of the mid-eighteenth fought two major European wars between 1740 and 1763 as well as dealing with the Jacobite Rebellion at home. The battle honours of the period include such names as Dettingen, Minden and Warburg. The cavalry played a major role in all these campaigns and this book sets out to describe how they were uniformed, equipped and mounted and how they operated.

The author runs the Living History Group Cobham's Dragoons

A View of the West Front Horse Guards, with the Treasury and Downing Street Beyond by Samuel Wale National Army Museum

Date painted: c.1758. So this painting from the NAM is by Samuel Wale - curious.

Coldstream Guards

This seems to be by John Chapman. Thats all I know about it

Royal Artillery in the '45

By G Embleton from Like Hungry Wolves

More recently G Embleton interpreted the uniform differently (although its an officer) in Cumberland's Culloden Army: