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.
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