28mm Hessians: 1760-63 Regiment Mansbach 1st BTN

 

First battalion using Black Hussar figures. White facings are always slightly tricky to paint.

28mm Hessians: 1760-63 Regiment Wutginau 2nd BTN

Here is the second battalion of the regiment I recently posted here. I really like the Black Hussar pose.

1760-63 Regiment Wutginau 1st BTN

These are figures (all except the Foundry officer) from Black Hussar and they are ones I have never used before. Normally I buy the marching pose but these are ‘Spannt den Hahn!’ which I am not going to translate. They are trickier to paint but I really like the pose which looks like they mean business.

I have used the flags from the plate which you can also see here. It is undated but I believe the plate (and there are others in this range) dates from anywhere from 1760 to the start of the AWI. Note that none of these flags are those used in the AWI so my guess is that they were the transitional flags before the AWI issue. I think that the names are misleading too. This regiment is named as Erbprinz and Wutginau became Erbprinz in 1776. The first Hessians arrived in America on August 15, 1776 so hardly enough time to change the flags to the newer and fancier AWI versions. I think the plates show the new flags issued in 1760 when Landgrave Friedrich II came to the throne.

This is the first battalion of two in the regiment.

Note: The Hessian Lion always points away from the flagstaff in this period.

Landgrenadierregiment/AWI Regiment Rall

In 1760, when the new Landgrave Friedrich II reorganised his army, the three former militia regiments were reorganised into three "Garrison Battalions" of 4 companies each, and one standing battalion of "Garrison Grenadiers" of 4 companies. This is the latter and by the AWI this is Grenadier Regiment Rall of Trenton fame.

You can see from the attached schematic that the uniform is basically the same although some coat lace has been added and the mitre's back colours has changed. The green flag has been somewhat embellished as per the 'Prussification' of the army. Further worthy of note is the fact that while the mitre rear of other ranks was piped white, this piping is gold for NCOs.

This one-battalion regiment fought at the Battle of Warburg. In my Hessian army the regiments are normally of 2 battalions each of 500 men (5 bases per battalion) whereas I have made this stronger with 7 bases or 700 men. Figures are mostly Black Hussar with command from Foundry.

Regiment Prince Karl

Here is the second regiment for my Hessian SYW army, Prince Karl. The Inhaber of this regiment remained the same person for the SYW through the AWI. There is also a well known painting of the regiment which shows an incident at the battle of Krefeld. Kronoskaf says “ On June 23, the regiment took part in the Battle of Krefeld where it was deployed on the right wing under the command of the Hereditary Prince. Towards the end of the battle, the Hereditary Prince and Gilsa rallied the battalion along with Wutginau Infantry and other Allied infantry units and advanced onto the plain. The Comte de Gisors at the head of 4 squadrons of the Corps des Carabiniers de Monsieur le Comte de Provence charged these advancing battalions who let them close in to about 20 paces before firing a devastating volley mowing down in an instant most of the first rank. A single squadron managed to break through but the third rank of infantry knocked it down (ie turned round)”.

My flags here are the AWI ones which are probably the wrong style of flags because at the time of the battle (1758) the regiment was a one battalion regiment with different plainer flags.

Note also that during the SYW this regiment had silver buttons and white lapel lace. By the AWI, the regiment had yellow buttons and lapel lace. I do not know when the change was made but I have gone for the SYW colour scheme.

I have compiled a painting card to assist you in painting this regiment.

Hessian SYW K1 Erbprinz Cuirassiers

I have feilded these as cuirassiers in their post-1760 uniform. Although they were converted to cuirassiers the actual cuirasse does not appear to have been issued until after the end of the SYW. But I wanted to use the latest offerings from Black Hussar and so these are actual cuirassiers. If you want Prussian (or lesser smaller states') Cuirassiers then these are the best you can buy in 28mm. Each figure comes with a variety of sword arms you can chose from.

Hessian SYW 7/9 Mirbach Grenadiers

These are slightly different, in composition, from the original converged grenadier battalion which was grenadiers from regiments 7 and 11. These are from regiments 7 and 9 which I am fielding. I love these Black Hussar figures.