As far as I can tell the Huguenot Regiments were employed in the Dutch Stadhouder's Army and therefor not issues with Pike. See : War, Religion and Soldiering, 1685-1713,

I hope this helps, unless anyone else has any more accurate information,

regards

Mark

Andy,

love your Shaken! markers, I can see me trying to make my markers like this. outstanding work

Mark

Jeff, if you can try to get "The Anatomy of Victory" by Brent Noseworthy, (unfortunately I gave my copy away, which I now cant understand why!), but back to the point, this is the best book on tactics of the time. From memory, the Dutch Grenadiers were formed into a separate company ( located on the...

It may be of interest to some of you that the House of Commons Journal is a virtual gold mine of information for this period. The first link is for estimated costs of Six Regiments of Horse, Two Regiments of Dragoons and Twenty-five Regiments of Foot to be sent to Ireland. it gives a breakdown of ea...

My fellow Clibinarium is correct, I guess its a question of preference for either physical books or digital copies. For my part, I tend to fall into the former, But i have looked at the link supplied and you get a very clear and user friendly electronic copy. My copy of the book arrived today, It is...

Folks, Amazon currently have the following book for £3.82 with a limited number of copies available, The battle of the Boyne: together with an account based on French and other unpublished records of the war in Ireland (1688-1691) and of the formation of the Irish brigade in the service of France. L...

Barry, have you tried, The Horse Guards by Barney White-Spunner,the Oxford Blews returned from Ireland in 1692 to replace the Life Guards and were headquartered in Westminster to suppress any unrest in London. IN 1697 they were meant to be posted to Birmingham, but this was changed to Oxford, betwee...

Partizan is always the highlight of the year, however there seems to be a disturbing trend for traders and clubs to start packing away earlier each year.. :( I have been involved in putting on both demonstration and participation games for longer that I care to remember and I believe that when putti...

have a look at the Warlord Games site, they are releasing a new Crimean range, they have started with British centre and Flank companies plus commany

Can anyone tell me why people never start with the Russians
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This is the first time I have ever posted on a forum, But what happened at Partizan last Sunday spoilt what should have been a great day. I have run demo games for years untold. On sunday we had put on a Alma game, all went well until packing away when i found that some one had had it away with a Ru...