Wednesday, April 7, 2021

The first Dutch French Revolutionary units

Here we present you our first French revolutionary Dutch units. As a slow painter there are always more units on the painting table then are ready but here it goes (with some information about the source of the paintings: 

Dutch unit  Huzaren van der Hoop (1787-1794) which was renamed for the rest of the revolutionary period as the Huzaren van Timmermans. They had 2 squadrons in the field although some say 3 sq.

Figures are Forgotten Glorious which sadly aren't with us anymore (afaik).



Picture of a colonel of the Huzaren van der Hoop/Timmermans


Light infantery unit of the jagers van Löwenstein-Wertheim. This unit was hired by the Dutch in 1794 and the unit went into British pay in April1795.

They are portrayed in the earlier Bavarian Rumford helmet. They are also depicted in a kind of Austrian jäger Korsehut in the Osprey MAA nr 328.
Figures are by Bicorne/Connoisseur and are in fact early Würtemberg figures.

Some pictures of the unit. The third picture is from the "Jassenboekje" which is a great source for the Dutch army of the FR period.


Following are the first two painted Dutch combined grenadier battalions.
The first one is the batallion of Van Buseck consisting, from left to right of the grenadiercompanies of  Van Brakel (reg nr 10) in yellow, Van Dopf (reg nr 3) in green, van Quadt (reg nr 13) in yellow and Nassau-Usingen (regiment Walloon) in white facings. 


The second battalion De Larrey consists (again from left to right) of the grenadiers of the regiments Erfprins (in orange), Oranje Nassau nr 1 (red), Orange Nassau nr 2 (red) and Markgraaf van Baden (in red and the only regiment portrayed in the Jassenboekje in grey trousers). 


Figures by Emperor Toad. These are great figures and my painting doens't do them justice.

7 comments:

Remco said...

Looking good. I asume you need 3.000 on your gamingfield hahaha

Fire at Will said...

Nice to see something different for the period

Alde Garde said...

Remco, when i see the to painted figures I think I am near that figure

Alde Garde said...

Will, I agree You don't see Dutch troops very much on the wargames table.

Alde Garde said...

Remco,
of course I ment the mountain of unpainted figures

James Fisher said...

These look great. Am I imagining things or have I seen these previously; on your Ça Ira, perhaps? Whichever the case, they are wonderful to view!
Regards, James

Alde Garde said...

james, thanks. You are right. They first were on the Ca-ira blogspot but I am combineing or beetter integrating Ca-Ira into the Alde Garde blog.