Next year will mark the bicentenary of the end of the Napoleonic Wars and I am planning to commemorate the event with as much style as I can muster.
If I can manage to mobilise enough tin I plan to stage all the major battles of the 100 days (cent jours) campaign of 1815. Not only Waterloo but also Ligny and Quatre Bras, and possibly Wavre as well.
To this end I have been working out what I need to get kitted out to achieve this. Mostly I need more Prussians, as I have a fair selection of French and Anglo-Allied already. So to start with I will be concentrating mostly on these and if I get time icing the cake with extra detail, such as belgic shako wearing British where appropriate, since mine sport the Peninsula stovepipe type. Fortunately there is a fantastic website which details all the uniforms of all the participants in some detail.
However to start with I have added one famous, one infamous and one not so famous regiment to my collection. After this I will be mostly getting the mass of Prussian infantry out of the way.
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| Duke of Cumberland's Hussars, regiment of mostly gentlemen's sons infamous for running all the way back to Brussels during Waterloo claiming all was lost. |
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| 4th Dutch Light Dragoons, who despite receiving something of a bad press from some English accounts, actually did rather better than the Duke of Cumberland's Hussars on the day |
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| The Scots Greys, famous for their part in the capture of an eagle in their first outing away from Britain in twenty years and immortalized in an equally famous painting by Lady Elizabeth Butler |
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