Showing posts with label Siege of Maastricht 1673. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Siege of Maastricht 1673. Show all posts
Wednesday, 22 July 2026

Photo shoot by The Troop - Mousquetaire du Roi 1673 [2nd Company] for a new show for 2027.

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  Facebook   ' By this period the familiar tabard had by now been replaced by a fairly cumbersome , if elegant cassock. This was the ki...
Thursday, 21 May 2026

North Star 1672. The new Musketeer figures for our 1672 range.

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 They'll be taking pre-orders this weekend for them.
Thursday, 9 April 2026

Happy birthday Duke of Monmouth

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  James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth - Wikipedia
Wednesday, 25 March 2026

The siege of Maastricht in 1673

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Musketeer d'Artagnan's remains believed found under Dutch church

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  More than 350 years after the death of legendary French musketeer d'Artagnan, remains have been found under the floor of a Dutch churc...
Sunday, 12 October 2025

Siege of Maastricht 1673.

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Article on wargaming the battle using the En Garde rules : https://nstarmagazine.com/1672_2_1.htm
Monday, 23 June 2025

Siege train from Maastricht 1673 by Jean Paul

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Detail of a painting that is here with other enlargements  
Monday, 25 November 2024

Jan Wyck Duke of Monmouth

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

James Scott at the siege of Maastricht in 1673, painted by Jan Wyck c. 1675

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 I was wondering if the trooper behind Monmouth was from Sir Henry Jones's regiment of Light Horse [pssibly Henry Jones who was Monmouth...
Saturday, 23 November 2024

La ville de Maestricht a été prise par le roy le 29 juin 1673, musée des Invalides, Paris.

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Tuesday, 27 June 2023

350th anniversary of the death of D'Artagnan

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 25th June was the death of  Charles de Batz de Castelmore d'Artagnan Killed by a musket ball to the throat at the Siege of Maastricht. ...
Tuesday, 9 April 2019

Happy birthday to the Duke of Monmouth

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Jan Wyck. In the uniform of the King's Troop of Lifeguards according to Anna Keay in her new biography. April 9 is the day we raise...
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Saturday, 16 February 2019

Maastricht 1673

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This siege is a key event in the period. Search this blog for Maastricht
Sunday, 28 October 2012

Battle of Grolle 1627 - 2012

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The bumph reads The Battle for Grolle is a regular historical reenactment of the siege of the fortified border town of Groenlo (former...
Wednesday, 23 May 2012

Siege of Maastricht

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Anonymous posted this image as a response to my thread on the French classical helmet. Thanks.
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Saturday, 8 August 2009

The First Churchills - episode 1

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The Churchill channel has uploaded all 63 parts of this tv miniseries - one of the first I suppose -on the life of the Duke of Marlborough r...
Saturday, 21 March 2009

Flats for the Siege of Maastricht 1673

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Thanks for the tip-off - these are great. They really capture the period well in all its colour. http://www.gloriousempi...
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Wednesday, 4 March 2009

Monmouth at Maastricht?

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The Duke of Monmouth - maybe at Maastricht - interesting cavalry figures in the background. Is there a colour version of this? I think I...
Wednesday, 25 February 2009

strange attire?

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A strange figure in the background of the painting by Jan Wyck of the Duke of Monmouth at Maastricht . See the whole image here

Monmouth at Maastricht

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This painting by Jan Wyck is in my local art gallery in Bath and I keep meaning to have a look at it in the flesh. It is thought to depict t...