"So Carnehan weeds out the pick of his men, and sets the two of the Army to show them drill and at the end of two weeks the men can manoeuvre about as well as Volunteers. So he marches with the Chief to a great big plain on the top of a mountain, and the Chiefs men rushes into a village and takes it; we three Martinis firing into the brown of the enemy".
Kipling "The Man Who Would Be King"
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By way of a wrap up, and also because this is an amazing 3D mapping project by a very talented lady that (although a trifle "niche" 😁) needs to be seen by more people - the following puts the "Gates" mini project into an overall context..
Note the following we have visited on the blog (click for the post .. if you
haven't had enough already 😏):
- King James (or Point) Gate at 0.15 sec and 2.50 sec
- Camber Bastion at 0.37 sec and 2.41 sec
- Kings Bastion and the Spur Redoubt 0.54 sec
- King William Gate 1.10 sec
- Landport Gate 1.40 sec
- Beestons Bastion 2.16 sec
- King George (or Quay) Gate 2.37 sec
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| Regimental Standard - Copyright: Kronoskaf |
There is a very (very) good potted history of this regiment on the Kronoskaf
WSS site (link below) so there's little point in me repeating the (huge
amount of) good work completed there, but by way of a framework to hang some
'rabbit holes' on (and I do love a rabbit hole😏) the regiment was first
raised in Piedmont (Italy) in 1630 by the Commander de Souvré. The regiment
transferred into the French service in May 1635.
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| Duc de Orleans - Portrait by Jean-Baptiste Santerre |
- from 1 May 1693: Jacques-Joseph Vipart, Marquis de Silly (a Knight of the Order of the Holy Spirit no less) -
- Silly commanded a brigade of cavalry at Blenheim, comprising his own regiment, plus the Regiment de Montreval, the Regiment de St. Pouanges and the Regiment de Ligonday - about 500 men in all, in 9 squadrons..
- he was wounded, and taken prisoner at Blenheim and the regiment was then given to ..
- from what little I have managed to find out about him "..he is said to have been of a haughty and arrogant disposition and after attaining the rank of Lieutenant Général des Armées du Roi he put an end to his life by throwing himself out of a window in a paroxysm of mortified ambition" (from the forward to the "Memoirs of Madame de Staal de Launay" a lady who had fancied him but not had her feelings returned but despite that cast him in a more pleasant light than most seemed to.. 😏)
- from 25 December 1704 to 6 March 1719: Nicolas-Louis Grostête* de Jouy
- apparently an outside choice for the command of the regiment, and someone who the Duc de Orleans had gone outside of the box to choose. From what I can tell the concerns were mainly due to Nicolas's lack of influence or seniority in terms of aristocracy..
- he was clearly able as he commanded the brigade after Silly's absence and on at least two occasions was trusted to take them on missions away from the army
War service by year:
- 1701 in Flanders
- 1702 combat of Nijmegen
- 1703 siege and capture of Alt-Breisach; Siege of Landau; Combat of Speyerbach
- 1704 Battle of Blenheim
- 1705 in Alsace being brought back up to strength
- 1706 operations on the Rhine.
- 1707 transferred to Flanders
- 1708 Battle of Oudenarde
- 1709 Battle of Malplaquet
- 1711 Combat of Arleux
- 1712 Battle of Denain; siege and recapture of Douai; Siege and recapture of Le Quesnoy; Siege and recapture of Bouchain.
- 1713 transferred to the Rhine; capture of Landau and Freiburg.
These are Dixon's and painted and based by me some time pre-2006, and as I say probably one of the first regiments I painted - I have a curious antipathy towards flags for my cavalry units - so there isn't one.. 😏
Further Reading:
- Orléans Cavalerie - Project WSS (Kronoskaf)
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Laters, as the young people are want to say...
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