SYW / WAS French infantry and artillery

To round off a trio of Seven Years War posts, here's my first unit of French infantry and accompanying light cannon. These are the white / beige coated soldiers of pre-Revolutionary France, so there's no dark blue to be seen. They were really hard to paint but I'm happy with the way they turned out. I'm hoping to build on my Seven Years War collection to stage a scaled down version of Fontenoy  one of my favourite battles of military history. Led by Maurice De Saxe, the French won a bloody victory against a shaky alliance of British, Hanoverians, Austrians and Dutch, who attacked the fortified French but were unable to break through to relieve the siege of Tournai.

AWI / SYW British infantry and Hessian artillery

Here's some photos of more Zvezda infantry and cannon appropriated from their Great Northern War range.

This time, tricorne-sporting British redcoats advancing with fixed bayonets, supported by a Hessian 6 pounder. I wasn't going to worry about any Hessians for my wargaming armies, but I have just finished reading "1776" by David McCullough, so now my mind has been changed! The number of Hessians sent across for the American War of Independence was astonishing to read about - they numbered in many thousands.

AWI Colonial infantry / SYW Prussian infantry / artillery

It's shocking how life gets in the way of blogging!

Here's some American War of Independence Colonial infantry and cannon, who will also proxy as my ersatz Prussians if I require them for a Seven Years War scenario. Figures are by Zvezda, and are technically Great Northern War Russian infantry, but I'm using all the Zvezda GNW sets to depict other nations. I'm not a stickler for historical accuracy in this period--if the paint job is close enough I'll be happy to use them!