tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24164014603508396782024-03-17T20:04:02.284-07:00Wargames ObsessionA blog about my passion for wargames, in both 20mm (1/72 scale) and 28mm (WWII Bolt Action, Saga and Fantasy (Konflikt 47, Kings of War and Warhammer)Herman van Kradenburghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02436600778513944817noreply@blogger.comBlogger161125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2416401460350839678.post-74813240377830690892021-08-30T18:42:00.004-07:002021-08-30T18:56:20.021-07:00Zulus! Sir...Thousands of them...The Anglo-Zulu War (1879) A Brief Synopsis<br />
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I recently played a few games with the rules for The Men who would be Kings and also had a look at Warlord's Black Powder, and also their Zulu Wars supplement. Having already built some Victorian Brits for the Sudan Campaign (another of Victoria's colonial wars); I was keen to expand my British colonial forces, and, of course they would need some opponents other than just the Mahdist Ansar...<br />
Invested in Warlord, Perry, North Star and Empress figures.<br />
The Anglo Zulu War (AZW) of 1879 is one of the extraordinary "little wars" of Victorian history.<div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCyZfjYXu-S6zBhPOu5hPj7-eFSxkOWJylvN1QqmseQjkn9YWiWDbkvKx5989pCinDEHFM8FAvzXYt3oYln93SQOQq_dbxD1j6uI7DvFJld1DO-_3_wCN4d65xFo82NnwVcOt6_UWBMSk/s1509/64q63664.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="1509" height="271" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCyZfjYXu-S6zBhPOu5hPj7-eFSxkOWJylvN1QqmseQjkn9YWiWDbkvKx5989pCinDEHFM8FAvzXYt3oYln93SQOQq_dbxD1j6uI7DvFJld1DO-_3_wCN4d65xFo82NnwVcOt6_UWBMSk/w640-h271/64q63664.JPG" width="640" /></a></div></div><div><br />
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Many people are aware of the battle of Rorke's Drift - made famous by the films "Zulu" (1964, Stanley Baker and Michael Caine) and " Zulu Dawn " (1979, Peter O'Toole and Burt Lancaster) , but they are not as aware of the Battle of Isandlwana, fought earlier on the same day, 22nd January 1879.<br />In fact, the defense of Rorke's drift raged through the night and on into the next day, 23 January 1879.<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ1hnh3iYFWE3PbZ8QQ2enl9ZApo0DVLFvTVI5gh8mG4Zl1RD2LvvMi6Zx-S4Lta8tEvBbNe303GHahMk_kqcsxySrMewgdVVE0xxd-T35bens1yOpJJQHclfdINloCQM9eycfgMDM5Nw/s1500/256523-1330622976.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1189" height="364" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ1hnh3iYFWE3PbZ8QQ2enl9ZApo0DVLFvTVI5gh8mG4Zl1RD2LvvMi6Zx-S4Lta8tEvBbNe303GHahMk_kqcsxySrMewgdVVE0xxd-T35bens1yOpJJQHclfdINloCQM9eycfgMDM5Nw/w289-h364/256523-1330622976.jpg" width="289" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Cetshwayo kaMpande, the Zulu King</div><br /><div>Cetshwayo's impi dealt the British empire a bloody nose that constitutes the greatest defeat of the Brits at the hands of a native/ indigenous force ever. Rorke's drift was a bit of a face-save, if you like.</div><div><br /></div><div>A lot has been written about Cetshwayo and Chelmsford, but in fact, neither was on the battlefield on the day. In the vernacular, they were the commanders-in-chief, so it was "their" armies that faced off on the day. Chelmsford was the strategist of the broader attack on the Zulu kingdom. The only time they really squared up as commanders was at the Battle of Ulundi.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitxyCyHM1wv8hL9Aswsi1bIbqygIzRHvrLvbYh_lB_tD7dUPWwX0chtQFzxjG1pAg7JnsfWoco5p-_g6D92GEunURa_TCaPPoipHhwUl1hqqmOGgxsfex_4IvZZzK6f_l5qBhR_pLaWb8/s862/7w5h75wh.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="380" data-original-width="862" height="282" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitxyCyHM1wv8hL9Aswsi1bIbqygIzRHvrLvbYh_lB_tD7dUPWwX0chtQFzxjG1pAg7JnsfWoco5p-_g6D92GEunURa_TCaPPoipHhwUl1hqqmOGgxsfex_4IvZZzK6f_l5qBhR_pLaWb8/w640-h282/7w5h75wh.JPG" width="640" /></a></div></div><div><br /></div><div>52 British officers and 806 non-commissioned ranks were killed at Isandlwana. Around 60 Europeans survived the battle. 471 Africans died fighting for the British. Zulu casualties have to be estimated and are set at around 2,000 dead either on the field or later from wounds. The Zulus captured 1,000 rifles with the whole of the column’s reserve ammunition supply.<br />
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The AZW war also brought an end to the Napoleonic dynasty with the death of the Louis Napoleon, the French Prince Imperial at the hands of the Zulu, and brought down the incumbent British Government. I've written a separate post on the Prince Imperial's demise.<br />
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Being of both British and Boer descent, the history is close to my heart. In some ways it was a a pre-able to the Anglo-Boer wars, which are also of great interest to me. My ancestors also faced the might of the Zulu impi, but also that of the British empire.</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnlkqcFOo400oA66Sf6irr99yQWR1SxX4cGKwncrbDyztxVxK_SzKpydkC5CpzGxNa-woqIy4yWjvUBfm7mMRSmGeYLnO379crmXNEmqStvO1QiDksY9k2_ITIoSv7fbyplvKcJvVhJ-k/s720/Zulu+Dawn.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="404" data-original-width="720" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnlkqcFOo400oA66Sf6irr99yQWR1SxX4cGKwncrbDyztxVxK_SzKpydkC5CpzGxNa-woqIy4yWjvUBfm7mMRSmGeYLnO379crmXNEmqStvO1QiDksY9k2_ITIoSv7fbyplvKcJvVhJ-k/w640-h360/Zulu+Dawn.png" width="640" /></a></div></div><div><br /></div><div><br />
My paternal grandmother was from the Eastern Cape, where many of the colonial volunteers came from. My wife's great-grandfather on her father's side, Willem Cornelis Janse van Rensburg, was the 2nd President of the ZAR (One of the Boer republics, after the Voortrekker leader Andries Hendrik Pretorius; but before the more famous Paul Kruger) Her maternal grandmother was actually disowned for marrying an Englishman, as some of her siblings died in British concentration camps in South Africa. </div><div><br /></div><div>My father and grandfather could speak both Xhosa and isiZulu fluently. I am only able to converse in basic Zulu, but was once able to conduct a medical examination in isiZulu. My vocabulary, however, is fading fast after 20 years of living in New Zealand.</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3D_1PxwjSuIqP5MW1FGlw9D-CRCy_lvyn3IaNGyVGkh7N3RKZS-nlMSnvMnWL30s55x1-rTP8Ppw0D5JWdh7XjV_k0lvcMOI4WwjJ1KSLZt8kcEzv3khjm8gdaO1GEbxFSa_hBHav0NU/s514/91cxi3kmsvl-_sl1500_.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="346" data-original-width="514" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3D_1PxwjSuIqP5MW1FGlw9D-CRCy_lvyn3IaNGyVGkh7N3RKZS-nlMSnvMnWL30s55x1-rTP8Ppw0D5JWdh7XjV_k0lvcMOI4WwjJ1KSLZt8kcEzv3khjm8gdaO1GEbxFSa_hBHav0NU/w400-h269/91cxi3kmsvl-_sl1500_.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
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However, the words of Johnny Clegg's " Impi" ring in my ears as I research and write. </div><div>Couldn't help but stream it in the background:<br />
<br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Impi! wo 'nans' impi iyeza</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Obani bengathinta amabhubesi? (Warriors! The battle is coming! Who dares to fight the lions?) </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">All along the river</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Chelmsford's army lay asleep</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Come to crush the children of Mageba</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Come to exact the realm's price for peace</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">And in the morning as they saddled up to ride</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Their eyes shone with the fire and the steel</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The general told them of the task that lay ahead</div><div style="text-align: justify;">To bring the people of the sky to heel</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Mud and sweat on polished leather</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Warm rain seeping to the bone</div><div style="text-align: justify;">They rode through the season's wet weather</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Straining for a glimpse of the foe</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Hopeless battalion destined to die</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Broken by the benders of kings</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Vain-glorious general and Victorian pride</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Would cost him and eight hundred men their lives</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">They came to the side of the mountain</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Scouts rode out to spy the land</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Even as the realm's soldiers lay resting</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Mageba's forces were at hand</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">And by the evening the vultures were wheeling</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Above the ruins where the fallen lay</div><div style="text-align: justify;">An ancient song as old as the ashes</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Echoed as Mageba's warriors marched away...</div></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYDf7O9VMPTVINRAE4HQOppiWAtHO5uLjAfJBWA01L97mwSwPuTTCwKNut6c312CqHT61ctUqdDPC0Qz96iuZVtLIXdpsfTA1xZO65Jvcr9KgvvP-_1APwDbezlQBYSSmp_-WbBbyP6Xo/s1024/Scene-from-Zulu-Dawn.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="434" data-original-width="1024" height="272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYDf7O9VMPTVINRAE4HQOppiWAtHO5uLjAfJBWA01L97mwSwPuTTCwKNut6c312CqHT61ctUqdDPC0Qz96iuZVtLIXdpsfTA1xZO65Jvcr9KgvvP-_1APwDbezlQBYSSmp_-WbBbyP6Xo/w640-h272/Scene-from-Zulu-Dawn.png" width="640" /></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div></div></div><div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZBxh1okWJ-8gSDutLBoNEJBCarggnZtAZW-SCFrWU9GxW87XE6GHARmyStwhA5tkc3W5_x9QYLo32i1fSfTR6-nfPdvj5TALusJWrmZXrJYVXOsMTqBQ0KZoChHcB0h2uPHyN9MSLlMc/s720/zulu-dawn-08.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="306" data-original-width="720" height="272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZBxh1okWJ-8gSDutLBoNEJBCarggnZtAZW-SCFrWU9GxW87XE6GHARmyStwhA5tkc3W5_x9QYLo32i1fSfTR6-nfPdvj5TALusJWrmZXrJYVXOsMTqBQ0KZoChHcB0h2uPHyN9MSLlMc/w640-h272/zulu-dawn-08.png" width="640" /></a></div></div></div></div><div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYDf7O9VMPTVINRAE4HQOppiWAtHO5uLjAfJBWA01L97mwSwPuTTCwKNut6c312CqHT61ctUqdDPC0Qz96iuZVtLIXdpsfTA1xZO65Jvcr9KgvvP-_1APwDbezlQBYSSmp_-WbBbyP6Xo/s1024/Scene-from-Zulu-Dawn.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div></div><br /><br />
The Zulu war was precipitated by Sir Henry Bartle Frere in 1879 who was spoiling for a fight against the Zulu Kingdom; an independent sovereign state in Southern Africa, until then actually recognised by the British Crown.<br />
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The British army was led across the Tugela river by Lord Chelmsford and the Anglo-Zulu war resulted in one of the most bloody wars ever to take place on South African soil.</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz70RZ4gT1vrZ9eIOZT7ZIxAfH0WjDZzAiX28WM4dX82Dh_FNYSuAIebr-3MRjtjSC15l1FZ242hA46-JoGw3VDDE0S-nzzSMqCiZo7m_j6aifyaTmQ8QjUCd_iDf2ZuaJZPSG04q532w/s2000/Chelms.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="1591" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz70RZ4gT1vrZ9eIOZT7ZIxAfH0WjDZzAiX28WM4dX82Dh_FNYSuAIebr-3MRjtjSC15l1FZ242hA46-JoGw3VDDE0S-nzzSMqCiZo7m_j6aifyaTmQ8QjUCd_iDf2ZuaJZPSG04q532w/w510-h640/Chelms.jpg" width="510" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Lord Chelmsford</div><br /></div><div><div>Chelmsford split his force into three columns. He planned to surround the Zulus and force them into battle before capturing the royal capital at Ulundi.</div><div><br /></div><div>The right column crossed into KwaZulu near the mouth of the Tugela River to secure an abandoned missionary station at Eshowe as a base. The left column entered Zululand from the Transvaal and made for the town of Utrecht.</div><div><br /></div><div>Finally, the centre column, led by Chelmsford himself, crossed the Buffalo River at Rorke's Drift mission station to find the Zulu army.</div>
<br />The Zulu King and military leader was Cetshwayo kaMpande, (son of Mpande) who ruled the Zulu Kingdom from 1872 to 1879. He fielded an army of forty thousand to sixty thousand men. His brother, Dabulamanzi was the supreme commander of the Zulu army.</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBkxKZgrhUaUxO2Y9ixAlsYHmM38jtEMIVRkg3aWK1j5C9VVuBmnjV0VijapGqBnIv01xNW4Nv73Q2opcz19y712YiFqCDzq_F93tIn9qyMh_1N4PMnXiAy-BwsLHjNyGRaZQ_fUxvF-c/s672/dabula.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="498" data-original-width="672" height="474" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBkxKZgrhUaUxO2Y9ixAlsYHmM38jtEMIVRkg3aWK1j5C9VVuBmnjV0VijapGqBnIv01xNW4Nv73Q2opcz19y712YiFqCDzq_F93tIn9qyMh_1N4PMnXiAy-BwsLHjNyGRaZQ_fUxvF-c/w640-h474/dabula.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Dabulamanzi kaMpande</div><br />Frere issued an ultimatum to Cetshwayo, without the permission from the British Government, and then ordered the invasion of Zululand when Cetswayo ignored it. This invasion was led by Lieutenant General Frederick Augustus Thesiger, Baron of Chelmsford.<br />
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The British invaded Zululand in 3-pronged attack, with Rorke’s Drift being the staging point.</div><div><br />At least 6 battles of significance occurred: Isandlwana, Rorke’s Drift, Hlobane, Khambula, Gindlovu and Ulundi.<br />
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The Zulu warriors comparatively weakly armed, using thrusting spears (iklwa), throwing spears (umkontho); also known as assegai, warclubs and shields. Some were armed with obsolete muskets. The British soldiers were armed with Martini-Henry rifles. Colonial troops bore an assortment of weapons.<br />
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The battle for Rorke’s Drift started on the very same day as the famous Battle of Isandlwana. </div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie71D-vtzgJCRlSvjACS1-_s02Z8TbtMBQc-Uu83Hy1PWrB2DKtrdk1OAeeEFU5FDIL_HImWr1Fi0uylRKXWyVCm-UKDi-Nk2yh1pao7DEYn56L_KTOe9ELpIPa1iBfP_1KI6A1Cz6Kq4/s900/Battle-of-Isandlwana.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="630" data-original-width="900" height="448" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie71D-vtzgJCRlSvjACS1-_s02Z8TbtMBQc-Uu83Hy1PWrB2DKtrdk1OAeeEFU5FDIL_HImWr1Fi0uylRKXWyVCm-UKDi-Nk2yh1pao7DEYn56L_KTOe9ELpIPa1iBfP_1KI6A1Cz6Kq4/w640-h448/Battle-of-Isandlwana.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></div><div><br /></div><div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIzQK8YHPhKkNOkb2p77sr0d9p25McOXOuAr6Av29kqYvMXaMTDilJCE5nrj0eDkB7LgWTg_YToWziLw6Gh-Za1JJSMpplgzi05F-XpFP2R6X1RRm67y9dXOsAhjG5_jNCEPM4B6c5ABY/s960/85408.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="577" data-original-width="960" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIzQK8YHPhKkNOkb2p77sr0d9p25McOXOuAr6Av29kqYvMXaMTDilJCE5nrj0eDkB7LgWTg_YToWziLw6Gh-Za1JJSMpplgzi05F-XpFP2R6X1RRm67y9dXOsAhjG5_jNCEPM4B6c5ABY/w640-h384/85408.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">At Isandlwana the Zulu army was led by Ntshingwayo kaMahole </div></div><div style="text-align: center;">(Incorrectly identified here as Cetshwayo) and Mavumengwana Kamdlela Ntuli.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlB-qMgCVu6yqq6C8x39U9VkjmozbZgsGBXieVo3P_1YjwyZjnKXMH3-A5KyhLAQ0x8oHLA4y7eYNSbA0f00ZQWW-Zf_8N9Lcf8vvnzmo-qAMiE02NPPBZng7Lv-Nkn6tVLlgFb8XbJqE/s1200/AnthonyWilliamDurnfordRE.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="852" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlB-qMgCVu6yqq6C8x39U9VkjmozbZgsGBXieVo3P_1YjwyZjnKXMH3-A5KyhLAQ0x8oHLA4y7eYNSbA0f00ZQWW-Zf_8N9Lcf8vvnzmo-qAMiE02NPPBZng7Lv-Nkn6tVLlgFb8XbJqE/s320/AnthonyWilliamDurnfordRE.jpg" width="227" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCDD_a-mqUjYEboNaIfOsslFzOa8WpkGXfNckNQQTaps_OBKKJnCfJ5uC_PerUW0-k9IAJivZOlouXHc67mfG9VEQjuYgIdDF6UERBSLH0ekJnUdsYOZNVvLb_CkkSHM92L6t3wwzj2JI/s2000/Pulleine.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="1296" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCDD_a-mqUjYEboNaIfOsslFzOa8WpkGXfNckNQQTaps_OBKKJnCfJ5uC_PerUW0-k9IAJivZOlouXHc67mfG9VEQjuYgIdDF6UERBSLH0ekJnUdsYOZNVvLb_CkkSHM92L6t3wwzj2JI/s320/Pulleine.jpg" width="207" /></a></div></div><br /><br />The British commanders were Lieutenant colonel Anthony William Durnford and Lieutenant Colonel Henry Pulleine. The invasion column was all but completely wiped out at Isandlwana .<br /><div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheIesZ_ov5IQXVEogT4hcMFbkMproGJGtAYg2hvLF_UmgibnC_S7sSx0vqBLCE_7U_sUHHTD7fLXPqUhZtBHmoLRZM3vjxFFfCM2iyJnnTOl7w9JXyRf6sdCKPXWYLaKCXJp1IJ7EPrWE/s510/97867a1b2c554f0833cb61d0286719b1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="510" data-original-width="367" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheIesZ_ov5IQXVEogT4hcMFbkMproGJGtAYg2hvLF_UmgibnC_S7sSx0vqBLCE_7U_sUHHTD7fLXPqUhZtBHmoLRZM3vjxFFfCM2iyJnnTOl7w9JXyRf6sdCKPXWYLaKCXJp1IJ7EPrWE/s320/97867a1b2c554f0833cb61d0286719b1.jpg" width="230" /></a></div></div><div><br /></div><div>The Battle of Rorke’s Drift took place at the Tugela River in Natal, South Africa. The British commanders were Lieutenant Gonvile Bromhead and Lieutenant John Chard.<br />Prince Dabulamanzi kaMpande, commanded the Zulu army. The Brits were victorious despite overwhelming odds. The battle is immortalised in literature, legend and on celluloid.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjrf2-F2ITnq-hs6xXBIVO6-G38n19B9T-o4yVHuBw8IRd11P4VTBzBkDpIX4orhxYEqSWdua5QhpZoAblzTJC9f7KsKP0XglMH8SRYFyMFivBYr-ojLzNDSG0pF-a70zCiJw06uSzC2U/s904/Rorke%2527s.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="904" height="354" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjrf2-F2ITnq-hs6xXBIVO6-G38n19B9T-o4yVHuBw8IRd11P4VTBzBkDpIX4orhxYEqSWdua5QhpZoAblzTJC9f7KsKP0XglMH8SRYFyMFivBYr-ojLzNDSG0pF-a70zCiJw06uSzC2U/w640-h354/Rorke%2527s.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></div> <br /><br />
Khambula, 29th March 1879: Northern Zululand. Ntshingwayo kaMahole commanded the Zulu warriors faced by Colonel Evelyn Wood's column of the army. Despite the British forces being demoralized by their defeat at Isandlwana battle, they prevailed at Khambula. The British thought this particular battle to be their turning point in the Zulu war.<br />
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Gingindlovu: 2nd of April 1879 Eastern Zululand. (Also known as uMgungundlovu and uNgungundlovu, Place of the Elephant - uDingane, Mpande's father and Cetshwayos' grandfather's capital ) Lieutenant general Lord Chelmsford himself commanded the British and Natal colonial forces while Somopho kaZikhala was the Zulu general. Chelmsford was victorious.<br />
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Ulundi: The final major battle, 4th July 1879, the capital of Zululand. King Cetshwayo himself headed the Zulu warriors doing battle with Lord Chelmsford's British soldiers. The British fielded seventeen thousand men and the Zulu twenty-four thousand men.<br />
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Cetshwayo had greater numbers of rifles and out-dated muskets at Ulundi, and hoped this would bolster his army. These weapons were often of poor quality, ammunition in short supply, and when used by with Zulu warriors not trained to use these guns, quite ineffective. Compare that to the British forces who were professional and trained soldiers, well supplied, and supported by artillery.<br />
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On 28th August 1879, the Zulu king, Cetshwayo was captured and exiled to the Cape colony. <br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOfcQPGmPvR3nzC0R2G8a1BiwPfD8zGMSEPLvTzxUYHZehcX_dZsYEkCCvo73oWxQa109Q0mxjAhP5b8nSlo5a4dM6lO6zE9jeaW_evUuNhAfE-WaTpwobQH0oyfCZab1VDmuG0xH2Ksg/s960/101940.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="694" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOfcQPGmPvR3nzC0R2G8a1BiwPfD8zGMSEPLvTzxUYHZehcX_dZsYEkCCvo73oWxQa109Q0mxjAhP5b8nSlo5a4dM6lO6zE9jeaW_evUuNhAfE-WaTpwobQH0oyfCZab1VDmuG0xH2Ksg/w462-h640/101940.jpg" width="462" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTZ-19f2ywSy9i8UmgEHWDXrGPkQB4DICeFOqhyphenhyphenXewakpRF2l54Q98cz4aAbZjbo2UIqdPknw6rR7UipxBDN48XhUrWjUlX0Mayish4Nsw56nzuhXd-xiHgHR1LqrvBkWveDqHu3QSLJc/s2048/GettyImages-594771108-scaled-p4luj484fqapjce85ck0qiyw1webd4f731woudpvvc.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="2048" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTZ-19f2ywSy9i8UmgEHWDXrGPkQB4DICeFOqhyphenhyphenXewakpRF2l54Q98cz4aAbZjbo2UIqdPknw6rR7UipxBDN48XhUrWjUlX0Mayish4Nsw56nzuhXd-xiHgHR1LqrvBkWveDqHu3QSLJc/w640-h400/GettyImages-594771108-scaled-p4luj484fqapjce85ck0qiyw1webd4f731woudpvvc.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">Disclaimer: This article is simply a distillation and interpretation of information and images freely available on the internet, for the purposes of education and entertainment; primarily for a wargaming audience. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">I do not own any of the content other than my own interpretations. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">This post may contain opinions and distortion of historical facts, and may differ from actual historical fact. Within this context I am happy to correct, acknowledge ownership or even remove content. </span></div></div><div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></div>Herman van Kradenburghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02436600778513944817noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2416401460350839678.post-88711967105939978642021-08-25T03:49:00.012-07:002021-08-27T15:41:24.175-07:00How Zulu Impi killed Napoleon (Death of the Prince Imperial: 1 June 1879)<div class="separator"><br /></div>Napoléon, Prince Imperial (full name: Napoléon Eugène Louis Jean Joseph Bonaparte, Prince Impérial de France; 16 March 1856 to1 June 1879) was the only child of Emperor Napoleon III of France and his Empress consort Eugénie de Montijo. <br /><br />After his father was dethroned in 1870, he relocated with his family to England. On his father's death in January 1873, he was proclaimed Napoleon IV, Emperor of the French by the Bonapartist faction.<div><br /></div><div> <a href="https://www.blogger.com/#" style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeD2v5FYLUdZM5uHlqV30z1mD76ccvw_W5jxvnb4ul6kHLCE2nXUwi-NrG7jj1MjeP8YU9Z7IZFgwsV3HId9Krd9-Z8G-AiY3uLRHrgC_TDahdQppjXDFjLlm5BDh53ta6Qxe-VFsbw9E/w253-h400/21F6DE1C-BEA0-44D3-9763-4BE018C9E0C8.jpeg" width="253" /></a><br /> <br />Louis trained as a soldier in England. Keen to see action, he successfully put pressure on the British to allow him to participate in the Anglo-Zulu War. In 1879, serving with British forces, he was killed in a skirmish with a group of Zulu. His premature death sent shockwaves throughout Europe, as he was the last serious dynastic hope for the restoration of the Bonaparte Family to the throne of France.<br /><br /> Born in Paris, he was baptized on 14 June 1856, at Notre Dame Cathedral. His godfather was Pope Pius IX, whose representative, Cardinal Patrizi, officiated. His godmother was Queen Victoria. His English nurse, Miss Shaw, who was recommended by Queen Victoria taught the prince English from an early age. The young prince was known by the nickname "Loulou" in his family circle.</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEm285g4gEANwyRTYv0MBNF4iYrCTjjhJ6rVQfLggyyguks2Ny-mMKif-mK4yWSWFeuQxu2HB8fhaYqCT5vKwO7816XPFphJCrluMsaxH_WWMLNF1byLh4wRdLQFSlQ7Q2oCZadYJqao8/s518/baby+lo.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="518" data-original-width="347" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEm285g4gEANwyRTYv0MBNF4iYrCTjjhJ6rVQfLggyyguks2Ny-mMKif-mK4yWSWFeuQxu2HB8fhaYqCT5vKwO7816XPFphJCrluMsaxH_WWMLNF1byLh4wRdLQFSlQ7Q2oCZadYJqao8/w268-h400/baby+lo.JPG" width="268" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Empress Eugenie and Louis as a baby</div><br /></div><div>At the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War (1870–1871), as teenager, 14 or 15 years old, he accompanied his father to the front and had a baptism of fire at Saarbrücken. He was present at the battle of Spicheren, on the hills above Saarbrücken, early in August, when, as the Emperor informed the Empress in a despatch published immediately afterwards, ‘Louis a fait son bapteme du feu’ (Has his baptism of fire)</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrrz3GMNVPJ9uHpFoZwXBSc9cW7U6ORMAzepO2yq0pdgPkWbs8dA7ohOQjR_to77J0yp2G3EklpNgq3CvcISMxcWfWs9FIz0bHhYS0aDw-wZRDnAjdk6CKDUnbUeBspcncuWupmlvk-sw/s420/toddler.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="420" data-original-width="282" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrrz3GMNVPJ9uHpFoZwXBSc9cW7U6ORMAzepO2yq0pdgPkWbs8dA7ohOQjR_to77J0yp2G3EklpNgq3CvcISMxcWfWs9FIz0bHhYS0aDw-wZRDnAjdk6CKDUnbUeBspcncuWupmlvk-sw/w269-h400/toddler.JPG" width="269" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWcWZpJqTl2FQf7WrD4JKLum73ycnRh5IRuyZeesaeOPLdcCpUP7oIUlbXgPvIJ_ePVeWo692Ed9i7UWZk_nxSI6MfwiHwTS9h7uzgv6dEqUmnkkCAtFXl39YvW5MHhlbOcRaDUV1xb38/s960/bc3070bcf9e213018c05f8b8fd581849.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="778" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWcWZpJqTl2FQf7WrD4JKLum73ycnRh5IRuyZeesaeOPLdcCpUP7oIUlbXgPvIJ_ePVeWo692Ed9i7UWZk_nxSI6MfwiHwTS9h7uzgv6dEqUmnkkCAtFXl39YvW5MHhlbOcRaDUV1xb38/w259-h320/bc3070bcf9e213018c05f8b8fd581849.jpg" width="259" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Louis as boy, being groomed for life as an officer</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>The Prince, however, was not long allowed to partake with his father the experiences of that unfortunate campaign, but was sent back first to Paris and then Belgium when the French army began to retreat. The disastrous battle of Sedan, on Sept 2, with the surrender of Napoleon III as a prisoner of war, caused the speedy overthrow of the French Empire. </div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdFI3EAloxvIoSJpTWWYDlcfXYay2L9oZJIAanF2luCtEf-0AlNC9JHQZDZXbZ67TaoyIoruX2itopz8lOHFnltmFON_KdMM9vM1MsxJ6Lo74dh0nWWGUZ3_Fyk6VUl5gxiDCLaxUSmMw/s650/painting-of-napoleon-III-surrendering-after-the-battle-of-sedan-2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="402" data-original-width="650" height="396" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdFI3EAloxvIoSJpTWWYDlcfXYay2L9oZJIAanF2luCtEf-0AlNC9JHQZDZXbZ67TaoyIoruX2itopz8lOHFnltmFON_KdMM9vM1MsxJ6Lo74dh0nWWGUZ3_Fyk6VUl5gxiDCLaxUSmMw/w640-h396/painting-of-napoleon-III-surrendering-after-the-battle-of-sedan-2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Surrender of Napoleon III, Louis' father, to Bismarck at Sedan</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>The Empress, with the Prince Imperial, took herself to England for refuge. The exiled French Royal family settled in England at Camden Place in Chislehurst, Kent. On his father's death, Bonapartists proclaimed him Napoleon IV. On his 18th birthday, a large crowd gathered to cheer him at Camden Place.</div><div><br /></div><div>The Prince Imperial attended King's College in London. In 1872, he applied and was accepted to the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. He finished seventh in his class of thirty four, and came top in riding and fencing.; he passed sixth in mechanics and mathematics, seventh in fortifications and artillery, first in horsemanship, and fifth in gymnastics. He was then commissioned into the Royal Artillery in order to follow in the footsteps of his famous great-uncle.</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYdBF9yzBKf5R0gl2xMTYRkMHKqUvUd89K3ZHF9VUURpuCAXMIvp10o7iLgH45iMcEf_zabDwkJJug8h-iaUT-hjqzeVF4NoB71boQVa_YZzQL55SkbFbfwwOoMtjKUo-q3uFIIzwK8w4/s1920/Lous.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1280" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYdBF9yzBKf5R0gl2xMTYRkMHKqUvUd89K3ZHF9VUURpuCAXMIvp10o7iLgH45iMcEf_zabDwkJJug8h-iaUT-hjqzeVF4NoB71boQVa_YZzQL55SkbFbfwwOoMtjKUo-q3uFIIzwK8w4/w426-h640/Lous.jpg" width="426" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Louis Imperial's uniform, Woolwich Academy</div> <br /> During the 1870s, there was some talk of a marriage between him and Queen Victoria's youngest daughter, Princess Beatrice. Victoria reportedly believed that it would be best for "the peace of Europe" if the prince became Emperor of France. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>The Prince remained a devout Catholic, and retained hopes that the Bonapartist cause might eventually triumph if the secular Third French Republic failed. He supported the tactics of Eugène Rouher over those of Victor, Prince Napoléon, breaking with Victor in 1876. <br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/#" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5HlVwR5ESVDJbaHRxTsCE9xukYDKVKwlWl33T6UX9idTK7tV3vRHD-tUDlDkRL4xydog3NoreqbOfxwA1qfN8Fs_JDN4Iyneb05UcTCBftNbbVFebenNVWHYazH-ugmNQB_P-1dT6Uso/w339-h400/73C8AEF0-44E3-4D25-9871-FFBE8522F6AB.jpeg" width="339" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br />Louis Napoleon in field uniform</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div>With the outbreak of the Zulu War in 1879, the Prince Imperial, with the rank of lieutenant, forced the hand of the British military to allow him to take part in the conflict, despite the objections of Rouher and other Bonapartists.<br /><br />He was only allowed to go to Africa by special pleading of his mother, the Empress Eugénie, and by intervention of Queen Victoria herself. He went as an observer, attached to the staff of Frederic Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford, the commander in South Africa, who was admonished to take care of him. Louis accompanied Chelmsford on his march into Zululand. Keen to see action, and full of enthusiasm, he was warned by Lieutenant Arthur Bigge, a close friend, "not to do anything rash and to avoid running unnecessary risks. He reminded him of the Empress at home and his party and obligation to in France.</div><div><br /></div><div>(Bigge had fought in the Anglo-Zulu War, and was mentioned in despatches. In 1880, he was summoned to Balmoral Castle by Queen Victoria to give an explanation on the Prince Imperial's death. He was later appointed Private Secretary to the Queen. Rising to become Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur John Bigge, 1st Baron Stamfordham, GCB, GCIE, GCVO, KCSI, KCMG, ISO, PC. He was Private Secretary to Queen Victoria during the last few years of her reign, and to George V during most of his reign.) </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">Taken from The Illustrated London News, June 28, 1879:</span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuVYUGsPN0wSsK4-HGMGbSLDK37XwOXpd3Z6j4AU1tdO_tEFxvs1K2kUezIey6K6fAytK-BIAoSqgW87mG1OQ2c2S5i9u6UpBlyc61e5yE8tYCAERIAHO7Yzd1VTVYWhTJ4lZzN5ofwIo/s1600/1944-illustrated-london-news-ww2-ukraine-mountbatten-arakan-burma-front-german-beetle-tank-17-2608-p.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="408" data-original-width="1600" height="103" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuVYUGsPN0wSsK4-HGMGbSLDK37XwOXpd3Z6j4AU1tdO_tEFxvs1K2kUezIey6K6fAytK-BIAoSqgW87mG1OQ2c2S5i9u6UpBlyc61e5yE8tYCAERIAHO7Yzd1VTVYWhTJ4lZzN5ofwIo/w400-h103/1944-illustrated-london-news-ww2-ukraine-mountbatten-arakan-burma-front-german-beetle-tank-17-2608-p.jpg" width="400" /></a></div></div><div><div><br /></div><div><i>" </i>His motive was probably no other than the natural
inclination of a young man, who had been brought up with ideas of soldier-ship,
to take part in some active field operations. He did not belong to the Army, and
could not, therefore, expect to obtain any military rank. </div><div><i><br /></i></div><div>His position would be
simply that of a volunteer, nominally placed on the Staff of the Commander-in Chief, and really the guest of Lord Chelmsford at head-quarters. The two private
letters of introduction with which he was furnished by the Duke of Cambridge on
Feb. 25, the day before his departure from this country (England) , were read in the House of
Lords on Monday last. They may be quoted as showing precisely the manner in
which the young Prince was unofficially assisted in gratifying his own personal
desires.</div><div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDg3zi6ZTGB-YQ44JX5Fint7zRe4rb6DKlkcqAiqz6vol6i-_MYPIsqJUrEBCk1f5S4bfhxrgkIiWyVFy85IgQPgtbC_cxhOja9VDLccZDoTumgLDTwDQEnz9WxtbxCcDs6FAFCj-MQJ0/s1600/George-William-Frederick-Charles-Cambridge.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1093" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDg3zi6ZTGB-YQ44JX5Fint7zRe4rb6DKlkcqAiqz6vol6i-_MYPIsqJUrEBCk1f5S4bfhxrgkIiWyVFy85IgQPgtbC_cxhOja9VDLccZDoTumgLDTwDQEnz9WxtbxCcDs6FAFCj-MQJ0/w274-h400/George-William-Frederick-Charles-Cambridge.jpg" width="274" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimt16VN8T_pPFOxqZ13OoDdQ8RztZysZfsGgKjTL4IeMf52IIoaH1_8lVk59mr5M7xitrRak5Xj9PvWzq4s-gH_Q5BE-dpoodBCE-74tzA6r5RTsqzf18ex97wItwhGfD5sr41GZHimEU/s500/Chelmsford.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="332" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimt16VN8T_pPFOxqZ13OoDdQ8RztZysZfsGgKjTL4IeMf52IIoaH1_8lVk59mr5M7xitrRak5Xj9PvWzq4s-gH_Q5BE-dpoodBCE-74tzA6r5RTsqzf18ex97wItwhGfD5sr41GZHimEU/w265-h400/Chelmsford.jpg" width="265" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <span style="text-align: center;">Prince George, Duke of Cambridge</span> Lord Chelmsford</div><div><br /></div><div>In writing to Lord Chelmsford, the Prince George, Duke of Cambridge said of the Prince
Imperial that<i> </i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>“He is going out on his own account to see as much as he can of the
coming campaign in Zululand. </i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>He is extremely anxious to go out and wanted to
be employed in our army; but the Government did not consider that this could be
sanctioned, but have sanctioned my writing to you and to Sir Bartle Frere to say
that if you can show him kindness and render him assistance to see as much as he
can with the columns in the field. I hope you will do so. </i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>He is a fine young fellow,
full of spirit and pluck, and having many old cadet friends in the Artillery, he will
doubtless find no difficulty in getting on, and if you can help him in any other way,
pray do so. My only anxiety on his account would be that he is too plucky and go-ahead.”</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div> In the letter to Sir Bartle Frere his Royal Highness stated that the Prince
was going out</div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i> “To see as much as he can of the coming campaign in Zululand in the
capacity of a spectator. </i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>He was anxious to serve in our army, having been a cadet
at Woolwich; but the Government did not think that this could be sanctioned. But
no objection is made to his going out on his own account, and I am permitted to
introduce him to you and to Lord Chelmsford in the hope and with my personal
request that you will give him every help in your power to enable him to see what
he can. </i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>I have written to Chelmsford to the same effect. He is a charming young
man, full of spirit and energy, speaking English admirably,
and the more you see of him the more you will like him. He has
many young friends in the Artillery, and so I doubt not with your
and Chelmsford’s kind assistance, he will get on well enough.” </i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div>These letters plainly show that the Government and military
authorities at home did not intend to accept the services of the
Prince Imperial as a military officer. </div><div><br /></div><div>He was not to be placed
under Lord Chelmsford’s command, but was received simply as a visitor. Upon his arrival at Cape Town, in
the absence of Sir Bartle Frere, he was entertained by Lady Frere
at Government House, but lost no time in going on to Natal. </div><div><br /></div><div>There he became the guest, at Pietermaritzburg, successively of Sir Bartle Frere and of Lieutenant-Governor Sir Henry Bulwer, till he reached the head-quarters of General Lord Chelmsford, whom he first met at Durban on April 9. There are but scanty notices of what he did and experienced in the months of April and May; other than that he was ill with a slight fever during two or three weeks of that time. In the latter part of May, being on the general staff, he was attached to the cavalry corps of Colonel Redvers Buller, V.C., C.B., operating on the northern frontier of Zululand.</div><div><br /></div><div>Louis eventually made his way up country and on the 2nd of May 1879 at a camp near Khambula. He was reunited with two of his companions from Woolwich, Lieutenants Arthur Bigge and Frederick Slade. Both these officers had fought in the action at Khambula, on 29th March, which had in fact proved the turning point in the campaign. Louis listened avidly as they recounted the battle, wondering when it would be his chance to see some action. </div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVwK0UMauamu5fk5bOzhqo0yNDXsSpHbAJsGwQNyRwvKBoEV0hbbFSMpm9Ue8KcW2jhj0dI5iNrAZPGBF0nLik9eS3g-K4TC6TkJddpD1yiFyXoxnnsa4nc04K4EV9Hwuwm4nTghcYlf0/s400/fe188c563c974720f6143e2a54ac5b20.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="258" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVwK0UMauamu5fk5bOzhqo0yNDXsSpHbAJsGwQNyRwvKBoEV0hbbFSMpm9Ue8KcW2jhj0dI5iNrAZPGBF0nLik9eS3g-K4TC6TkJddpD1yiFyXoxnnsa4nc04K4EV9Hwuwm4nTghcYlf0/w258-h400/fe188c563c974720f6143e2a54ac5b20.jpg" width="258" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkMCILL9ozL2Xc7ymgrmXC1ciISam7syZTKn3ijZxu4Ab4oqChGpG8iibmR02ykiBoacYupQnVoZmYv9TNzqIE-rIhPpdWMQPn24kBVOA9vm41vTsRVft8lMd1qrhPED-7VhlDayyrzW4/s530/Larking.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="473" data-original-width="530" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkMCILL9ozL2Xc7ymgrmXC1ciISam7syZTKn3ijZxu4Ab4oqChGpG8iibmR02ykiBoacYupQnVoZmYv9TNzqIE-rIhPpdWMQPn24kBVOA9vm41vTsRVft8lMd1qrhPED-7VhlDayyrzW4/w400-h358/Larking.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Photograph purported to be of Louis Imperial larking with friends </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(? Bigge and Slade) in Zululand (Providence questionable)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Shortly after on the 8th May Chelmsford appointed Colonel
Richard Harrison, Royal Engineers, as his Acting Quartermaster-General. Despite his title, Harrison's
task was actually military intelligence. Harrison's
staff was limited, he only had two officers, Brevet Major Francis Grenfell and Lieutenant Jahleel Carey,
and one Lance Corporal, by the name of Martin. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsyYc_RcW0eRIj26HQoNWKNUEnBgyBTVrmG4J0tmkUuruQI84U361yBDbB0hnZkJjAlXBJacoG_z2Yg6OTLeJfgtDDjH_hqmxGqBpZIHofZtR0smxqqwIyyqeKUBiRYqx5X19sjCE-rkQ/s400/s-l400+%25281%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="300" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsyYc_RcW0eRIj26HQoNWKNUEnBgyBTVrmG4J0tmkUuruQI84U361yBDbB0hnZkJjAlXBJacoG_z2Yg6OTLeJfgtDDjH_hqmxGqBpZIHofZtR0smxqqwIyyqeKUBiRYqx5X19sjCE-rkQ/s320/s-l400+%25281%2529.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Harrison later in life</div><div><br /></div><div>Chelmsford decided that an observer position on Harrison's
staff would be an ideal billet for the Prince Imperial. This would permit the General to stop being a
royal tour guide, and allow him to get on with the matter in hand: To defeat the Zulu. </div><div><br /></div><div>Thus Louis was attached to Col. Harrison's staff. He very quickly found a soul mate in Carey. Thirty-one year old Carey was the
son of a Devon vicar, who had been educated at the Lycee Imperial in Paris and had served as a first aid volunteer in the Franco-Prussian War. In addition he had previously seen active service in West
Africa and Central America. Because of his Parisian education he affected certain French
mannerisms, also well speaking the language with a marked Parisian accent. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF62sGB7nTZJP9rj9GB3UoofpNsMrQu4zTMXDC5q4d8YHL_OV0untWoYSu4yC6sx1g5k5eWLwR_3QfwhAUiJVQ9wpusHMz9wuCN4ziXjkJ4z3tE_D2AhROKjG5fTITVuzVqUN3xVv-kfY/s307/jahleel-brenton-carey-d8f43909-0d8a-45d9-86fa-a9ca7a9cb3a-resize-750.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="307" data-original-width="199" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF62sGB7nTZJP9rj9GB3UoofpNsMrQu4zTMXDC5q4d8YHL_OV0untWoYSu4yC6sx1g5k5eWLwR_3QfwhAUiJVQ9wpusHMz9wuCN4ziXjkJ4z3tE_D2AhROKjG5fTITVuzVqUN3xVv-kfY/w259-h400/jahleel-brenton-carey-d8f43909-0d8a-45d9-86fa-a9ca7a9cb3a-resize-750.jpeg" width="259" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Jahleel Carey</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The Prince Imperial had thus been permitted to be a first hand spectator and had embarked on a reconnaissance deeper into KwaZulu. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Louis had been allowed, with Colonel Harrison's permission, to accompany a strong probing patrol, of some three hundred veteran volunteer horsemen, both European and African, to test the Zulu strength ahead of the line of march. </div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div>Louis was in his element - the opportunity for action had at last come to him. </div><div>On the 16th of May, as Zulu scouts were spotted on the ridge of the Itelezi Hill, but on sighting the patrol they melted back from sight. The reconnaissance commander, Lieutenant-Colonel Redvers Buller V.C., turned to his imperial guest to point out the stealth of the Zulu warriors, only to see that Louis had draw his sword, (the same sword that his great-uncle had carried at Austerlitz), and was galloping headlong in pursuit of the Zulus, thus jeopardising the purpose of the mission. </div><div><br /></div><div>Buller dispatched troopers after the eager young man, who returned dejected as he had not drawn blood. Buller asserted his authority over this spectator with extreme wrath: </div><div>"Your Imperial Highness, this is a reconnaissance, not a Zulu hunt...- Under no circumstances will I permit such reckless action again. Do I make myself clear, Sir." </div><div><br /></div><div>Sheepishly, the young Bonaparte admitted his error. On his return to the British lines, Buller, brave, reckless Buller, who only weeks before had personally risked his own life to rescue, not once, but three times, unhorsed men from the clutches of the Zulu, voiced his concerns about Louis Napoleon to his own superior, Col. Harrison. </div></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF56wXL3I7BGZHPDZMOA7ysTijOG-c8n88xj9IfoV5efEe2rgSLxlgJHEnL2xiu-K0E8WhGX_X2SE_FGEifu4FVlAtTcYCJaK2ZM91Fq2uFAkr77FsWAAGoU7PbKh1I_pb2uzDQz89ZtM/s389/Redver_buller_sauvant_un_officier_%25C3%25A0_Hlobane.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" data-original-height="389" data-original-width="300" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF56wXL3I7BGZHPDZMOA7ysTijOG-c8n88xj9IfoV5efEe2rgSLxlgJHEnL2xiu-K0E8WhGX_X2SE_FGEifu4FVlAtTcYCJaK2ZM91Fq2uFAkr77FsWAAGoU7PbKh1I_pb2uzDQz89ZtM/w309-h400/Redver_buller_sauvant_un_officier_%25C3%25A0_Hlobane.jpg" width="309" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK9qrt9O4M6Tpz_VqbldIR21OZZ6dGmIuB9yts6qXxvk8fRGzVoW32_O0SeBFdhI7d-RdZF2h_Z3GCJRcOYZslXbubkQtVQqdwJY2WL2wyXwcog1jHgb8c8fHeFMSYx6mSyHXKm0L-Ghs/s1200/VCRedversHenryBuller.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="850" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK9qrt9O4M6Tpz_VqbldIR21OZZ6dGmIuB9yts6qXxvk8fRGzVoW32_O0SeBFdhI7d-RdZF2h_Z3GCJRcOYZslXbubkQtVQqdwJY2WL2wyXwcog1jHgb8c8fHeFMSYx6mSyHXKm0L-Ghs/w284-h400/VCRedversHenryBuller.jpg" width="284" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Redvers Buller V.C. </div><div><br />While on patrol with Molyneux another event occurred. While talking with Louis spoke a shot rang out to their left. Nothing was to be seen, save for a trooper calmly
reloading his rifle and continuing with his pace. Molyneux concluded that the man had hit whatever
he had been aiming at. Not so the Prince, who again drew his sword and rode at full tilt towards the
trooper. </div><div><br /></div><div>Molyneux shouted, "Prince, I must order you to come back." </div><div>Louis pulled up at once, and
turned to face Molyneux, he saluted the officer with his sword, before returning it to its scabbard, and then
he let fly at the captain: "It seems I am never to be without a nurse."</div><div><br /></div><div>Sullenly he returned to camp. On his arrival Colonel Henry Evelyn Wood, quipped to Louis, "Well Sir,
I see you've not been assegaied yet." Louis replied, "Not yet, but while I have no desire to be killed, if
I have to fall I should prefer an assegai to a bullet, for it would show that I had at least been at close
quarters." </div><div><br /></div><div>For his sins Louis was unofficially confined to camp, employed on the less than rigorous duty of
drawing maps. This was a task which he seethed about: "How could he accomplish his political purpose and reestablish the Napoleonic dynasty, armed only with mapping paper and a drawing pen?"</div><div><br /></div><div>A patrol on the 30th concluded: " Nothing occurred. We breakfasted, we dined; we saw no Zulus, killed nothing;
met with no accidents, and got into camp as quiet as you like. Those who know
the Zulus say the patrol had done great good in burning the kraals, as such acts
teach the natives that we mean to thoroughly suppress them. One thing has been
ascertained, and that is that there are no Zulus in any number in the north-east
corner of Zululand.” </div><div><br />On the evening of 31 May 1879, Harrison agreed to allow Louis to scout in a forward party scheduled to leave in the morning, in the mistaken belief that the path ahead was free of Zulu skirmishers.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/#" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="311" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZBjgCYBllNDHrn-Ez-qQk95V-UjabZmQlVqYayPphFgOLUWmLBxO_Vqg-8IM2CGsVSE80qHjG78nj76yaGVNVhc4UWQlxm4_h8IeV5kUjQz-FklBGN7gBcxRkNvIWvooJsNyN1X5KH18/w400-h311/FF5C6EB0-A1BE-415B-8BCE-66C33F96742B.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Death of the Prince Impérial, detail of a painting by Paul Jamin</div><br /> On the morning of 1 June, the troop set out, earlier than intended, and without a full escort, largely owing to Louis's impatience. In the party was Lieutenant Jahleel Brenton Carey, a French speaker and British subject from Guernsey, (Who has been erroneously reported, also by Wikipaedia; to have been given particular charge of Louis.) The scouts rode deeper into Zululand. Without Harrison or Buller present to restrain him, the Prince is reported to have taken command from Carey, even though the latter out-ranked him.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjleOkBtaLGdq6cW950mG7_m6JWaqBnAHFOKNlbCC6w_TXYQs45lIAfVUDeFEe5zlvEMyx1Pp5ZJrIK53KDoZBMiN4TWdM18-KYnh6N1igpkZqMUamTJyYQx1E13dxhubLYjLb5m-advok/s400/s-l400.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="400" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjleOkBtaLGdq6cW950mG7_m6JWaqBnAHFOKNlbCC6w_TXYQs45lIAfVUDeFEe5zlvEMyx1Pp5ZJrIK53KDoZBMiN4TWdM18-KYnh6N1igpkZqMUamTJyYQx1E13dxhubLYjLb5m-advok/w400-h400/s-l400.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div>The Prince's party was to consist of six troopers and six Basuto (also referred to as "friendly Zulu" or Hlubi) Though no officer was sent to accompany him, Lt Jahleel Carey, an accomplished and intelligent soldier, requested to join the band. Carey had been instructed to survey and map out some of the adjoining ground, and he asked leave to go with the Prince.</div><div><br /></div><div>Harrison gave permission to Louis to verify details on his maps, by inspecting the area, and to help elect a spot for the camp to move to on the following day. </div><div><br /></div><div>Major Bettington's Troop of the Natal Volunteer Horse (established in Feb 1879 after the Isandlawana disaster) supplied an escort of six men. This consisted of Sergeant Robert Willis, Corporal James Grubb (a Natal farmer spoke the Zulu language and was a veteran of 16 years in the Royal Artillery), as well as four troopers namely Nicholas Le Tocq (a Guernsey islander who spoke French), William Abel, George Rogers and private Cochrane. In addition six African Basuto troopers of Captain Shepstone's Native Horse were also assigned to parade at 9.15 a.m. Due due to a misunderstanding, they reported to the wrong tent. <div><br /></div><div>The Basuto were better scouts as they had a keener sense of sight and hearing than the Europeans. In addition a renegade Hlubi Zulu was assigned as a guide who rode Louis´second horse called “Fate”. Also in tow was Louis´ fox terrier “Nero”. Eager to be about his task Louis left without waiting for the Basuto scouts. Major Francis Grenfell fell in with the group and travelled with them in the direction of the Ncome (Blood) River. A little over twenty miles off to the east was Ulundi, the Zulu capital. </div><div><br /></div><div>Harrison, who was on another mission in the same vicinity, came upon the little party. He suggested that their numbers were insufficient, to which Louis replied, "Oh no, we are quite strong enough." </div><div><br /></div><div>Harrison could see other mounted units scouting on the nearby Itelezi Hills - he felt that there was no reason to dispute the matter further. Harrison ordered Grenfell to return to camp with him. </div><div>Grenfell turned in his saddle and said, "Take care of yourself, Prince, and don't get shot." </div><div>The Prince, replied, pointing to Carey, "He'll take very good care that nothing happens to me." </div><br />To clear up a point on which Lt Carey and Lord Chelmsford differed in opinion: Carey went on the trip at his own request. He was never ordered to look after the Prince; in fact, he was told that, if he went, he was not to interfere with His Imperial Highness, who was eager to restore the the tarnished fortunes of his House, and desired to have all the credit of conducting the expedition himself.</div><div><br /></div><div>The young Prince was now in command of the party, ignoring both Carey and Harrison's advice, had prematurely, ordered it to ride without waiting for the six Basuto scouts. </div><div><br /></div><div>He led his little troop on for some distance, and at noon halted, again against Carey's counsel, for a rest in an apparently deserted Zulu Umuzi or kraal (A homestead, belonging to a Zulu named Sobhuza) The Umuzi was was surrounded by a field of tall maize corn and shoulder-high grass on one side and a gully (donga) on the other.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYkWVlGifaV1sATs55shW5k7TiPIr-G8pcsQmKKhyRJTUhwrSxmqajZFVf5FG_-hyqFsMnn2zXXxshZvjXXhtO1aYAoOUdAH7xkT20zEa_k04aB6CFNvTBU7YrNVfCazOBtfB0FMukzM8/s1171/mabulawayo.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1171" height="420" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYkWVlGifaV1sATs55shW5k7TiPIr-G8pcsQmKKhyRJTUhwrSxmqajZFVf5FG_-hyqFsMnn2zXXxshZvjXXhtO1aYAoOUdAH7xkT20zEa_k04aB6CFNvTBU7YrNVfCazOBtfB0FMukzM8/w640-h420/mabulawayo.JPG" width="640" /></a></div></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF_atxxaoD5rMRM0KEke5dRReNJfKX0W8JFZjX-E6wms26mvar9bu3OlRgb4hshkOpd4C0qW_oSjx_X7wRbEku2TyZCG5gJqUrkQYSMKy6bisNWiFQ39APdRkLHVhfKhhKQGIUp0Hrczo/s1056/repose.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="799" data-original-width="1056" height="484" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF_atxxaoD5rMRM0KEke5dRReNJfKX0W8JFZjX-E6wms26mvar9bu3OlRgb4hshkOpd4C0qW_oSjx_X7wRbEku2TyZCG5gJqUrkQYSMKy6bisNWiFQ39APdRkLHVhfKhhKQGIUp0Hrczo/w640-h484/repose.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>The beehive huts were deserted, but betrayed signs of recent habitation. Louis gave orders for the</div><div>men to off-saddle their mounts and allow them to be grazed. Their Zulu guide was dispatched to fetch water so that the white men could brew some coffee. </div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsZ4aRAHIpFkvA2DMtMpAN-UZnyPgoHCDd6v6knAROsWlhNLuYvzX1oK-GjD_rsJMlWJ_2cEPd-zBNI8E_JT51OYRlDm7VwTwFqy10wCyyGTXuaWeXPBHEZ5PnCV7U-iqpdch75wOJbQE/s1185/kraal.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="683" data-original-width="1185" height="368" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsZ4aRAHIpFkvA2DMtMpAN-UZnyPgoHCDd6v6knAROsWlhNLuYvzX1oK-GjD_rsJMlWJ_2cEPd-zBNI8E_JT51OYRlDm7VwTwFqy10wCyyGTXuaWeXPBHEZ5PnCV7U-iqpdch75wOJbQE/w640-h368/kraal.JPG" width="640" /></a></div></div><div>Louis and Carey made some sketches of the terrain, and used part of the thatch of the huts to make a fire. Louis lay down beside one of the huts and relaxed, he was in his element, free from the constraints of being made to obey orders, he was now giving the orders. Carey and Louis mused over the victories of the 1st Napoleon in Italy in 1796; and Louis's mind was obviously wandering towards his own future. The men relaxed over their coffee, and enjoyed a pipe, but no one had deemed it necessary to set a guard. </div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMSBFzrCpDwaussdrES9npwBKqO-M_7WM5GTtlyM0VNEASG66QTK67DVp0qqhPtsgO8yNc8lthMeU-amvIsqSyFpL_ikV2aDiRjHWsKoYIpkNrbs32xa3OrGVjip73opCSwGyfGmkkWpc/s1024/1024full.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="683" data-original-width="1024" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMSBFzrCpDwaussdrES9npwBKqO-M_7WM5GTtlyM0VNEASG66QTK67DVp0qqhPtsgO8yNc8lthMeU-amvIsqSyFpL_ikV2aDiRjHWsKoYIpkNrbs32xa3OrGVjip73opCSwGyfGmkkWpc/w640-h426/1024full.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></div><div><br /></div><div><div>Louis did not post a lookout. This was a fatal blunder. The cover of the maize field and the tall grass rendered the place ideal for concealment and ambush. Here the Prince waited and rested an hour, while the Zulu surrounded him.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">At 3.35 p.m. Carey suggested to Louis that they should saddle up,.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Louis replied, "Just another ten minutes." </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Almost simultaneously the Zulu guide reported that he had seen a lone Zulu on the rise above the kraal. The order was given to saddle-up, but some of the horses had strayed and it was a further ten minutes before all of them could be gathered and made ready. </div><div><br /></div><div>Lt Jahleel Carey, being an officer, mounted independently from the others. The enlisted men stood by horses, with Louis facing them. He enquired of them: "Are you all ready?" To which the men replied they were. Louis then gave the order "Prepare to mount", at which the men each put their left foot in the nearside stirrup - all were waiting for the Prince's next word of command. </div><div><br /></div><div>As the word "Mount" came from his lips it was drowned by a ragged volley of rifle fire from the surrounding bush, from which broke some forty or so Zulus, yelling their war cry, "Usuthu!" (Kill) as they came. This din startled the horses, making it difficult for riders to mount.</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5xl7khYXch8QkWd_5VqBbt__68WqQGCSh59hBrfzVWqA0VuNv3wjroACsqomcH01lejHBm3JKEuZ8SThqyLBwnrpO8Zn88ktGa5Ng37DGYpE0sYQkBbniotT5MSTAO9vPMopIlkyfrzk/s690/attacked.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="690" data-original-width="554" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5xl7khYXch8QkWd_5VqBbt__68WqQGCSh59hBrfzVWqA0VuNv3wjroACsqomcH01lejHBm3JKEuZ8SThqyLBwnrpO8Zn88ktGa5Ng37DGYpE0sYQkBbniotT5MSTAO9vPMopIlkyfrzk/w514-h640/attacked.JPG" width="514" /></a></div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpRtSCLnscMG-BHeIWcaCZJ3TFgdPuF8oV-911-bRxvcScspwrmYkw_sNppTLNi8ksC6Ed41NH-qnC7GJYPKo93yoHe1TO_lrjFKUmLs4ShiBOx2Tkmhw0WgyvzhrVN5h9TfoQvR40u4Y/s469/flight.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="428" data-original-width="469" height="365" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpRtSCLnscMG-BHeIWcaCZJ3TFgdPuF8oV-911-bRxvcScspwrmYkw_sNppTLNi8ksC6Ed41NH-qnC7GJYPKo93yoHe1TO_lrjFKUmLs4ShiBOx2Tkmhw0WgyvzhrVN5h9TfoQvR40u4Y/w400-h365/flight.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Trooper George Rogers's horse bolted, stranding him on foot. He managed to load and fire his carbine before falling to the assegais of warriors called Zubalo and Mshingishingi. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">Carey and the others rode off towards the donga. Trooper William Abel´s flight was stopped by a bullet from a captured British rifle and he fell from his mount. As for Prince Louis, he struggled to mount his horse and in doing so his sword, (Napoleon's sword from Austerlitz) cluttered to the ground. His horse, a skittish grey, dragged him along as he clutched onto a saddle holster. </span></div></div><div><br /></div><div>Trooper Nicholas Le Tocq, the man from Guernsey fled past him. Le Tocq was lying on his stomach across the saddle of his galloping horse. He could offer the prince little help, save for urging him in French to mount his horse. Fate intervened. The leather strap of the saddle holster broke, sending Louis crashing to the ground, fracturing his right arm. </div><div><br /></div><div>Corporal James Grubb looked back to see Louis making off on foot pursued by about ten Zulus. The fleet-of-foot Zulu warriors gained on their prey. Louis ran some three hundred yards, then turned in the donga to meet his destiny. </div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">He drew his pistol with his left hand, and fired two shots. Neither of these found a mark, despite being at close range. A thrown assegai, struck the Prince in the right thigh. Louis plucked the spear from his leg with his left hand, and tried to defend himself with it. Another warrior threw a spear, which entered his left shoulder. He eventually slumped to his knees. The Zulu closed in on him and he died under a flurry of stabbing assegai blades. </span></div></div><div><br /></div><div>No attempt could be made by Carey or the others to save Louis. It was impossible to see what was going on through the corn and grass, and it was not till the troopers had retreated for some considerable distance that Carey and his comrades learned of the Prince's fate. To have made a stand in the cornfield would have been to court instant death. </div></div><div><br /></div><div><div>Zulu oral history reports that the assault group was commanded by an Induna called Mnukwa, an officer of the royal household of King Cetshwayo. The warrior Langalabele hit Louis with his spear in the thigh; while Xabanga was the one who threw his spear at the Prince´s left shoulder and also fatally stabbed him to the chest. </div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhumN0X8aKpE7VMMd2Z1yCMIfB7z-JTZ8Vziwg7NRrYKajW3scZZMNm0wILmyoTTkfwgg4furUBoS3VpCc2qiW57LkEGnvuMTslMDoQZzNuz7fALzCSpJpN6HDh7Z47IXACYm8isVCnzSw/s461/Donga.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="416" data-original-width="461" height="361" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhumN0X8aKpE7VMMd2Z1yCMIfB7z-JTZ8Vziwg7NRrYKajW3scZZMNm0wILmyoTTkfwgg4furUBoS3VpCc2qiW57LkEGnvuMTslMDoQZzNuz7fALzCSpJpN6HDh7Z47IXACYm8isVCnzSw/w400-h361/Donga.JPG" width="400" /></a></div></div><div><br /></div><div>Most of the 17 stab marks recorded in his chest were probably postmortem. </div><div>This would be consistent with the Zulu practice of hlomula, whereby each warrior marked this participation in the killing of a gallant foe (Louis was described as having "fought like a lion"). </div><div><br /></div><div>He was then eviscerated with a cut through the stomach by the warrior Klabawathunga. </div><div>The belief was that it was necessary to free the spirit of the slain in order that it should not haunt the slayer. His clothing was taken and distributed among the warriors as it was tradition to wear a piece of clothing of the killed opponent as a talisman until a ritual cleansing could take place</div></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/#"><img border="0" height="362" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQem7P6Z3m1j6_2xJWIl74XAsRakG1H86HEn2HXCumNwtmZUQzuf6ud0ik0x0dUJDWh8KjWFLqCblt38U9ZLCEnPOY1ulAdln97Gra8QXrMIKWFzUY1L8JltYQ7JM7_WBLZmwGy_iysco/w640-h362/4E1CE362-355F-4A7A-90E7-890EDCD0D328.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br />Thanks to Carey's knowledge of the ground, the rest of the party, with the exception of the two slain troopers, were saved. Carey was able to give Colonel Wood's force the valuable intelligence that the enemy, contrary to the general belief, was present in strength the country ahead of the British.</div><div><br /></div><div>With no chance to rally, and out numbered, Carey and the others rode back, until they encountered Wood and his men. Due to the lateness of the hour, it was decided that it would have been futile to risk any further lives in the dwindling light of an African dusk. </div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9FHEdzIV7WEk6_beFJBLAaNuojI_oU2BWZJ9MSnmOchE42ywBIiBmV5FNg7pyBFuzcrNwfe9d_1UX_L2y0GNlB75ELTKeUSdEIvbtI8llOfYD0YfjZS3ZEfKgNjjS8XEg1zjWLu6Ehvo/s1246/Google+sat.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="679" data-original-width="1246" height="347" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9FHEdzIV7WEk6_beFJBLAaNuojI_oU2BWZJ9MSnmOchE42ywBIiBmV5FNg7pyBFuzcrNwfe9d_1UX_L2y0GNlB75ELTKeUSdEIvbtI8llOfYD0YfjZS3ZEfKgNjjS8XEg1zjWLu6Ehvo/w640-h347/Google+sat.JPG" width="640" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnfNlabrxYqJacRvNskMx0gTqFDdXCzLqVGmefRKljEbdlbCJCAgqJqd3C7KYMzMNNwmujhyphenhyphenl-IGJvTt6kpOtv9_p5ufBGfEPQZnmGxq16aKK6ElbItLf193G0xGTFkg81Sy_HHwhljp0/s746/escaped.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="746" data-original-width="572" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnfNlabrxYqJacRvNskMx0gTqFDdXCzLqVGmefRKljEbdlbCJCAgqJqd3C7KYMzMNNwmujhyphenhyphenl-IGJvTt6kpOtv9_p5ufBGfEPQZnmGxq16aKK6ElbItLf193G0xGTFkg81Sy_HHwhljp0/w490-h640/escaped.JPG" width="490" /></a></div>Carey and his men rode into camp that night and imparted their sorrowful news to General Lord Chelmsford. In the pre-dawn light of the following morning two whole regiments of regular British cavalry, several units of volunteer cavalry and a battalion of loyal African soldiers mustered to search for the Prince Imperial. </div><div><br /></div><div>The correspondent from the Le Figaro, Paul Deleage, his eyes filled with tears, yelled his abuse at the officers, with the words, "Yesterday the Prince left this camp with but seven companions. Today a thousand men will search for his body." </div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2rUnLePjJxzCJhGbw8-dqeCHjh5dZYPROD6cxcaqEAEHvSuq0HPs2ODSwY7XfrvgFlt-nfsc8SPk83MooJdR9RCMRJWP39JOMCHGM2vipQuFbEfBRPCFIAoG7X6nd4A-KbFNgJCn3VJw/s545/Louids+body+2.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="341" data-original-width="545" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2rUnLePjJxzCJhGbw8-dqeCHjh5dZYPROD6cxcaqEAEHvSuq0HPs2ODSwY7XfrvgFlt-nfsc8SPk83MooJdR9RCMRJWP39JOMCHGM2vipQuFbEfBRPCFIAoG7X6nd4A-KbFNgJCn3VJw/w640-h400/Louids+body+2.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div>The search party found his body where he had died, stripped of all its clothing, the body bore seventeen spear wounds of which one of three could have proved fatal. All wounds were inflicted on the the front of his body showing that he had died facing the enemy. </div></div><div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjphsaoemyP_Fuf1WFIEg86tv5R5hFCCBlE1__jqic1R2yC-HjLzx157HQ_B6LTghwJ5DqPkSvxBz6oD4B0hnlLGdKUGbAam8x5i-5Unzkl0teVAvbl6sj7YrPSurF_sGZumznBtmP-nqk/s758/body.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="758" height="422" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjphsaoemyP_Fuf1WFIEg86tv5R5hFCCBlE1__jqic1R2yC-HjLzx157HQ_B6LTghwJ5DqPkSvxBz6oD4B0hnlLGdKUGbAam8x5i-5Unzkl0teVAvbl6sj7YrPSurF_sGZumznBtmP-nqk/w640-h422/body.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoNakgGy_Twda9yBG4K6IlayW2QUt8XWahrYgVodNUTtj2u1z5CXx2sHu5GFj1li0bCjO3r8u8za3H85dQaqUb6QdxTqqF6ZbXouURwwxt3qVfsINH8YVAPbz1g4JtKyhDSQvzEwIkEFQ/s754/newspaper.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="754" data-original-width="507" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoNakgGy_Twda9yBG4K6IlayW2QUt8XWahrYgVodNUTtj2u1z5CXx2sHu5GFj1li0bCjO3r8u8za3H85dQaqUb6QdxTqqF6ZbXouURwwxt3qVfsINH8YVAPbz1g4JtKyhDSQvzEwIkEFQ/s16000/newspaper.JPG" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Contemporary press reports on Louis' body being recovered</div><br /></div><div>The body was borne away, and amid great ceremony it was taken back through Natal, and eventually to England. Where an almost state funeral took place at Chislehurst. </div></div><div><br />The indignation of the French Bonapartists at the death of the Prince Imperial was without limit. </div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5KyigOPf_ZuQP5LutJeNpryQUg6_Rz1nZmOgth6gblHTZp5B1VYXnN4PLXN05hEoFl4jPY8_eNbDfidtfbI__BefaQCmVfmXuRcm-mHx5dyX5ikVDG0DmULdJlR7fXzQrRoFaUq7XK9Q/s320/press.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="240" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5KyigOPf_ZuQP5LutJeNpryQUg6_Rz1nZmOgth6gblHTZp5B1VYXnN4PLXN05hEoFl4jPY8_eNbDfidtfbI__BefaQCmVfmXuRcm-mHx5dyX5ikVDG0DmULdJlR7fXzQrRoFaUq7XK9Q/w300-h400/press.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">The ex-Empress, who had encouraged her son to go to South Africa, was prostrate with sorrow and remorse. Even the tender sympathies of the British Queen could not console her for the loss of one whose life was necessary for her ambition, and whose death shattered the last hopes of Imperialism in France.</span></div></div></div></blockquote><div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipYXT1LSL0Hn5CZnmGhFh75hIG6g5BXRGwS5yvtBiFmdqpMtzue6PahyphenhyphenDRdlh6XgrD4PJsgrlqm2P9TzDnJKPUs7rMZIjl2GQcPrw-Z9-LwBfkx759HqeTkAZg0PDTkBaVD_1MY_qzQy4/s1421/bdf1775c2b20c156319cab9d827834b3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1054" data-original-width="1421" height="474" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipYXT1LSL0Hn5CZnmGhFh75hIG6g5BXRGwS5yvtBiFmdqpMtzue6PahyphenhyphenDRdlh6XgrD4PJsgrlqm2P9TzDnJKPUs7rMZIjl2GQcPrw-Z9-LwBfkx759HqeTkAZg0PDTkBaVD_1MY_qzQy4/w640-h474/bdf1775c2b20c156319cab9d827834b3.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Victor Bonaparte and Empress Eugenie at Louis' funeral</div><br />It was thought desirable that somebody should be sacrificed to appease the wrath of the ex-Empress.</div><div>Carey was hastily tried by court-martial, found guilty, and cashiered for "Misbehaviour in front of the enemy while in command of a reconnoitering party" He was sent back to the UK under arrest.</div><br /><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzROn1uR9SnT_Uoxa1qTZLu8iJsrFMYuYhyphenhyphenQFci3mBoT94xnnJ5iC2bquQGFd7flh3Iwl8-OKe5qp3vlsmXbXkhrGyAqYf86jeBiv5dRxWpubfKVsj6kpKYDuU-WBFCcn3jvvpfGqJURo/s992/800px-Carey%252C_Jahleel_Brenton_%2528Lune_rousse%252C_1879-08-31%2529.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="800" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzROn1uR9SnT_Uoxa1qTZLu8iJsrFMYuYhyphenhyphenQFci3mBoT94xnnJ5iC2bquQGFd7flh3Iwl8-OKe5qp3vlsmXbXkhrGyAqYf86jeBiv5dRxWpubfKVsj6kpKYDuU-WBFCcn3jvvpfGqJURo/w323-h400/800px-Carey%252C_Jahleel_Brenton_%2528Lune_rousse%252C_1879-08-31%2529.jpeg" width="323" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Carey vilified in the press</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">’</span></div></div><div>Carey was subjected to first a court of inquiry, then a hasty court martial in South Africa, fueled by agitation from Empress Eugénie and intervention by Queen Victoria.</div><div> <br /><div>The guilty finding and cashiering was later overturned by Prince George, the Duke of Cambridge, head of the Army. Carey was reinstated and subsequently promoted to Captain. Carey took the brave, but quixotic action of returning to his regiment. Though cleared and the court martial overturned by the Duke of Cambridge, he was to return to his regiment a pariah, shunned by his fellow officers for not standing and fighting. Carey endured several years of social and regimental opprobrium before his death in Bombay, India, following a fall from a rearing horse.</div><div><div><br /></div><div>Field Marshall Wolseley’s comment may be typical: ‘He had better start in some line of life more congenial with his cowardly heart… the greengrocer or the undertaker calling might suit him."</div></div><div><br />There were only one reason for attacking Carey:</div><div> <br />He was a convenient scape-goat. He was the officer of lowest rank who had any direct connection with the Prince Imperial's ill-fated reconnaissance. Though he had absolutely nothing whatever to do with the command of that expedition, or with the Prince's mismanagement of it, he was held to account.<br />In fact, all that Carey could be held responsible for, was for saving, by his superior knowledge of the ground, four of the six troopers whom the Prince had led into a fatal ambush. <br /><br /><div>It need hardly be said that, on review, the finding of the court-martial was overturned by the <br />Prince George, Duke of Cambridge, and Carey restored to his rank. The Duke laid all the blame on Colonel Harrison. The latter was, however, never tried by court-martial.</div><div> <br />He also found that Carey had made a mistake in assuming that the Prince would be in command of the party. Given the social standing and unique position of the Prince, this mistake which was not only natural but probably inevitable. Any of his peers would have fallen into this trap.<br /><br />Louis Napoleon's death caused an international sensation. Rumour spread in France that the prince had been intentionally "disposed of" by the British. The French republicans and even a Freemason's conspiracy was blamed. In one account, Queen Victoria was accused of arranging the whole thing, a theory that was later dramatised by Maurice Rostand in his play Napoleon IV.<br /><br />Zulu leaders claimed at a later stage that they would not have killed him if they had known who he was. Langalabele, and most of his other assailants, met their own death in July at the Battle of Ulundi.<br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCj2a2cmHzyw2rIE_izYK3fOKEg71g25dj6cg85T_r-Jcre_7RCqUqwhoS5Hhe8PJb6ef3V0zThYg5qeDVFhgginaLkVBWsf1JNuE0VnBmKpWpBDVEGyxplzbDrxWtJBUByeilGBoFC6c/s973/Capture.JPG"><img border="0" height="242" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCj2a2cmHzyw2rIE_izYK3fOKEg71g25dj6cg85T_r-Jcre_7RCqUqwhoS5Hhe8PJb6ef3V0zThYg5qeDVFhgginaLkVBWsf1JNuE0VnBmKpWpBDVEGyxplzbDrxWtJBUByeilGBoFC6c/w400-h242/Capture.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">Destroyed huts at Sobhuza's kraal, where the Prince Imperial met his fate</blockquote></blockquote><br />Princess Eugénie later undertook a pilgrimage to Sobhuza's kraal, and the spot where her son had died. Queen Victoria had a memorial cross erected in his memory on the spot:</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirR19kXwmO0hp2m9kkjGRAABM8mKZVC2o6lkrb_hTiEEz18kUBGKWJy24NvqjNy0wsmgGAwMzbVVJ6168EA9d9nj0ODgWa2eELX-zZCq41v5KRqfjBoDGLGjc-wxWt4hkgFzAfDp4aUN4/s2000/547558-1438344488.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="1364" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirR19kXwmO0hp2m9kkjGRAABM8mKZVC2o6lkrb_hTiEEz18kUBGKWJy24NvqjNy0wsmgGAwMzbVVJ6168EA9d9nj0ODgWa2eELX-zZCq41v5KRqfjBoDGLGjc-wxWt4hkgFzAfDp4aUN4/w437-h640/547558-1438344488.jpg" width="437" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div>The Prince, who had begged to be allowed to go to war (carrying the sword worn by the first Napoleon at Austerlitz) and who had worried his commanders by his dash and daring, was described by Garnet Wolseley as "a plucky young man, and he died a soldier's death. What on earth could he have done better?"<br /> <br /> His badly decomposed body was returned to Woolwich Arsenal, on board the British troopship HMS Orontes; and lay in state in the western octagonal guardhouse of the barracks where he had trained. </div><div><br /></div><div>The funeral procession, including Queen Victoria, went from there to Chislehurst, where he was buried. On 9 January 1888, his body was transferred to a special mausoleum constructed by his mother as the Imperial Crypt at Saint Michael's Abbey, Farnborough, Hampshire, England, alongside his late father, Napoleon III.</div><div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmmwzHWsj-actM-XJ7bpgfmArgjvGsP3_bJvHBSEuLU8X_sLRvrihVSDP3N_7zl5Qh-Ptm0NkErRiZ_FheSUO7EnqdsfCkNiugLH6frTg1i4Gq_CT0wQuHWevFQsCTXwJeSsHNN13gd2Q/s973/4qv54523q.JPG"><img border="0" height="252" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmmwzHWsj-actM-XJ7bpgfmArgjvGsP3_bJvHBSEuLU8X_sLRvrihVSDP3N_7zl5Qh-Ptm0NkErRiZ_FheSUO7EnqdsfCkNiugLH6frTg1i4Gq_CT0wQuHWevFQsCTXwJeSsHNN13gd2Q/w400-h252/4qv54523q.JPG" width="400" /></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmmwzHWsj-actM-XJ7bpgfmArgjvGsP3_bJvHBSEuLU8X_sLRvrihVSDP3N_7zl5Qh-Ptm0NkErRiZ_FheSUO7EnqdsfCkNiugLH6frTg1i4Gq_CT0wQuHWevFQsCTXwJeSsHNN13gd2Q/s973/4qv54523q.JPG"><br /></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmmwzHWsj-actM-XJ7bpgfmArgjvGsP3_bJvHBSEuLU8X_sLRvrihVSDP3N_7zl5Qh-Ptm0NkErRiZ_FheSUO7EnqdsfCkNiugLH6frTg1i4Gq_CT0wQuHWevFQsCTXwJeSsHNN13gd2Q/s973/4qv54523q.JPG"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh84IdrU4esxrUVKJU_5yxmFshFctjpV1rfjpmCSUN6KruT2s7BGjPZjJwWDasCDA3qBGLqSXeW8ey3QhpWlp-G8G982Jebc9ldRupCOyGU_JTenWECvj9Jr9sW-IqlNyLeQm1bnA6z4ZU/s679/funeral.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="679" height="378" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh84IdrU4esxrUVKJU_5yxmFshFctjpV1rfjpmCSUN6KruT2s7BGjPZjJwWDasCDA3qBGLqSXeW8ey3QhpWlp-G8G982Jebc9ldRupCOyGU_JTenWECvj9Jr9sW-IqlNyLeQm1bnA6z4ZU/w640-h378/funeral.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-RlHwPHaAurNDx3rcIOhHh_yx0Z0wwfyi2Pps9jgNQAQrcaL13OnMyIiThhT4lzhbK2j1fkowdcERG9BTRi4ABnB3czgOWuuBkeX4qe3uqNyqH8rGEV_g8_XF_EVj8W6Wg31LE_YU7Do/s647/funeal+2.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="647" height="296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-RlHwPHaAurNDx3rcIOhHh_yx0Z0wwfyi2Pps9jgNQAQrcaL13OnMyIiThhT4lzhbK2j1fkowdcERG9BTRi4ABnB3czgOWuuBkeX4qe3uqNyqH8rGEV_g8_XF_EVj8W6Wg31LE_YU7Do/w640-h296/funeal+2.JPG" width="640" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>The Prince Imperial will appointed his cousin, Prince Napoléon Victor Bonaparte his heir, skipping the (genealogically senior heir), Victor's father, Prince Napoléon, his uncle.<br /><br />Upon hearing news of Napoleon’s death, British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli asked “who are these Zulus…who on this day have put an end to a great dynasty?” </div></div></div></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivXF-BDRwvBqt4LX9WCJVI1YyFNAtEP-kd3nweaV4GrbScyiN6DR5QY4AwVfVhysAMB8yRKM9C0WqzddfLgQ85WrsI1OXesc3V6YIvFxNXeVZhgZvuSXMBhUTPc8qZQRTlTek5r314cxE/s1053/last+stand.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="686" data-original-width="1053" height="416" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivXF-BDRwvBqt4LX9WCJVI1YyFNAtEP-kd3nweaV4GrbScyiN6DR5QY4AwVfVhysAMB8yRKM9C0WqzddfLgQ85WrsI1OXesc3V6YIvFxNXeVZhgZvuSXMBhUTPc8qZQRTlTek5r314cxE/w640-h416/last+stand.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><div>Death of the Prince impérial during the Anglo-Zulu War, detail of a painting by Paul Jamin. Collection of Château de Compiègne; Musée du Second Empire, Compiègne, France.</div><div><br /></div><div>What became of the sword? </div><div><br /></div><div>There is no mention of it in Donald Morris’s "The Washing of The Spears" or "Captain Carey’s Blunder by Donald Featherstone. There is an image in the Getty Image collection showing Lt Lysons (later VC) handing the sword to Lord Chelmsford. </div><div><br /></div><div><div>The romantic legend was that it was Napoleon’s sword that he had worn at Austerlitz. The truth is sadly more mundane. Some sources report the sword he was wearing was simply a French or British Artillery/Infantry Officer's Service sword (Type 1822 or 1845 as below) and now is located in the Château of Fontainebleau. I have been unable to locate an image of the actual sword. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipJ_VxM6U74p5YM9TTUI8sOCQtUdB-SAk6_4IP-1XuThXP7eSPhXjsFhFMlv2m0t2rD9Qyz-IneK8y5ya5jVIOcluN9NlJY1aXSm7IQVew4HK21vjXg20GkFen30ZxTJ3AynkIpPpBUeI/s640/6-f5f3f0ad-640w.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="189" data-original-width="640" height="119" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipJ_VxM6U74p5YM9TTUI8sOCQtUdB-SAk6_4IP-1XuThXP7eSPhXjsFhFMlv2m0t2rD9Qyz-IneK8y5ya5jVIOcluN9NlJY1aXSm7IQVew4HK21vjXg20GkFen30ZxTJ3AynkIpPpBUeI/w400-h119/6-f5f3f0ad-640w.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8SaEBVr18NovvXrN_TzjqPnCcpc8w7caL9J954GrXuldZJxyjuMg-IF9dxIWWumPUF2AI-I7bmihPQhFPQcS1u_KQv42_NIIKkLyq74Znxi7NKJHzWKya73SQAHPkqQZb1nVcQezXsC4/s640/1822+Lord+Birdwood.GIF" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="304" data-original-width="640" height="190" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8SaEBVr18NovvXrN_TzjqPnCcpc8w7caL9J954GrXuldZJxyjuMg-IF9dxIWWumPUF2AI-I7bmihPQhFPQcS1u_KQv42_NIIKkLyq74Znxi7NKJHzWKya73SQAHPkqQZb1nVcQezXsC4/w400-h190/1822+Lord+Birdwood.GIF" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUOCCCKLSXHJFGy3vRKbwublVO42D77rKrrWE6xOXmy41qqpm_huWsSpi4k1WOT_E-mPEFCnamVFRMoQtDTBLG0vKY8ncI3vkVwXxHNxqE-6YP4GSCI66ZmBhyV3lLlHmfQGpnGHSTimw/s509/Br+p22.GIF" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="509" height="283" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUOCCCKLSXHJFGy3vRKbwublVO42D77rKrrWE6xOXmy41qqpm_huWsSpi4k1WOT_E-mPEFCnamVFRMoQtDTBLG0vKY8ncI3vkVwXxHNxqE-6YP4GSCI66ZmBhyV3lLlHmfQGpnGHSTimw/s320/Br+p22.GIF" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2rtJgX05PEbbejNQ9RTyZGmsk5OwlkSKLux0vh4npFqTTDvjmg_rIQH2TM6v1dOhdEhP9zLrnXHc-QHp5Eje3VEoB3xgzqJyEGdB9hXlithL-jfWmNHBFF7vcYHa1QsVa5somUhnN-mU/s658/French+1845.GIF" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="173" data-original-width="658" height="84" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2rtJgX05PEbbejNQ9RTyZGmsk5OwlkSKLux0vh4npFqTTDvjmg_rIQH2TM6v1dOhdEhP9zLrnXHc-QHp5Eje3VEoB3xgzqJyEGdB9hXlithL-jfWmNHBFF7vcYHa1QsVa5somUhnN-mU/s320/French+1845.GIF" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2gQbEBo74px70inxBy9LRkJZrzFqetJyUaxTUTp2YdCrzzICfXs1qBraejtbkgdUZQMrUrKwK_DbGkVcR7X_S9gIHvifhRc7AY0FWuLr00R4PZPx0rTZlwn1agOUXXgD8pgbZagrNcQA/s646/Frenck.GIF" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="366" data-original-width="646" height="181" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2gQbEBo74px70inxBy9LRkJZrzFqetJyUaxTUTp2YdCrzzICfXs1qBraejtbkgdUZQMrUrKwK_DbGkVcR7X_S9gIHvifhRc7AY0FWuLr00R4PZPx0rTZlwn1agOUXXgD8pgbZagrNcQA/s320/Frenck.GIF" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>The Emperor Napoleon I had the Austerlitz sword at his death in 1821 on St Helena. General Bertrand brought it back surreptitiously from St Helena to France to give to the Bonaparte family. It was intercepted by Prince Klemens von Metternich. The sword was handed to King Louis-Philippe and on his death in 1824 it was placed in the Army Museum in Paris (Les Invalides ) .</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBRX3k5mbdQmpJGRL0TASCfq86otibBPnNcE-MolnA8o9OFDbNFxnu40nmcjP5vmf6zas2XVicpiiiTl7_XgnCbIhe9Q0XbxZHS4wp-fZEfkFRDpGlEBQpAjUynjd0Rv_mOOwfkZcz0MI/s1920/Napoleon_Austerlitz_sword-IMG_0642.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1186" data-original-width="1920" height="248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBRX3k5mbdQmpJGRL0TASCfq86otibBPnNcE-MolnA8o9OFDbNFxnu40nmcjP5vmf6zas2XVicpiiiTl7_XgnCbIhe9Q0XbxZHS4wp-fZEfkFRDpGlEBQpAjUynjd0Rv_mOOwfkZcz0MI/w400-h248/Napoleon_Austerlitz_sword-IMG_0642.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The real sword of Napoleon I, worn at Austerlitz (Les Invalides, Paris) </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The final word</div><br /></div><div>A bronze statue of the Prince Imperial which was erected at the RMA Woolwich where he had been a gentleman cadet. This was moved to Sandhurst in 1955, when the two training units merged. It remains on the grounds of Sandhurst.</div><div><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuRL6EvfFqBKvNSGg91BnALGZ0p5mevRKhgJUuh3_EQ_T4nQ82CAg8dlw1q-SsmetAfTiDbepUnmoDPlCuIRBkkMIlg2C56sGsPKM_IHyy3gbQvJnUH6Ar5ndjOQzYtohaC4r0k5DGkfs/s1988/55813623_2521288684566108_8620851673562087424_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1988" data-original-width="1607" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuRL6EvfFqBKvNSGg91BnALGZ0p5mevRKhgJUuh3_EQ_T4nQ82CAg8dlw1q-SsmetAfTiDbepUnmoDPlCuIRBkkMIlg2C56sGsPKM_IHyy3gbQvJnUH6Ar5ndjOQzYtohaC4r0k5DGkfs/s320/55813623_2521288684566108_8620851673562087424_n.jpg" width="259" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div></div></div><br />Disclaimer: This article is simply a distillation and interpretation of information freely available on the internet, for the purposes of education and entertainment; primarily for a wargaming audience. <div>I do not own any of the content other than my own interpretations. It may contain opinions and distortion of facts, and may differ from actual historical fact. Within this context I am happy to correct, acknowledge ownership or even remove content. </div><div><div><br /></div></div>Herman van Kradenburghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02436600778513944817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2416401460350839678.post-67112602614309986682017-04-24T15:56:00.004-07:002017-04-24T15:56:33.412-07:00ANZAC day 2017 Remembering the fallen<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #585858; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; margin: 20px 0px 0px; position: relative;">
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Rift tech runs riot ! At Schloss Wolfenschwanz the evil German Scientists have been creating all sorts of horrific forms of wunderwaffen (wonder weapons)<br />
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From slavering werewolves (Schreckwulfen) to the hybrid human/bat/reptile Nachtjaeger to rift-tech weapons and Ubersoldaten.<br />
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Even the ordinary doberman was not spared, modified into vicious semi-robotic dogs, they stream out of the lair of Darkness.<br />
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Developing a weird war horror castle siege scenario. Looking for 3 more players. I'm happy to play either side, as I have troops for both. Any takers?</div>
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On Dust (Dust tactics/warfare ) and Konflikt 47:<br />
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A (slightly dated post I wrote about a month ago) Discovered it unposted today.<br />
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I've always loved the Weird WW 2 genre. Was very excited when Battlefront took on the Dust Studios' Dust tactics and Dust Warfare. Only to see it turn to custard. Or dust. Whichever you prefer.<br />
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Anyhow, not a lot of players for Dust around either, but I have 2 starter boxes and expansions sets sitting on the shelf.<br />
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The idea of an alternative ending to WW2, and alternative outcomes to great battles has always tickled my fancy. First stumbled across the SF Gem by Philip K Dick <i><a href="http://www.denofgeek.com/us/books-comics/the-man-in-the-high-castle/242951/why-the-man-in-the-high-castle-is-essential-science-fiction">Man in the High Castle</a> </i>back in the late 70s or early 80s. The book contemplates an alternate history in which Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan won World War II. This book contained an example of "alternate-alternate" history, in that one of its characters is the author of a book depicting a reality in which the Allies won the war (Philip Dick is, of course famous for writing<i> Do Androids dream of electric sheep?; </i>which was made into one of my favourite movies ever, <i>Blade runner) </i><br />
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Anyhow, back to the Weird WW2. I lamented the fractuous DS-BF relationship and kickstarter that was Operation Babylon, that only started shipping this year.<br />
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And then came Konflikt 47! Yay!<br />
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Bolt Action with Zombies! Bring it on!<br />
So then, why the Conflict about Konflikt?<br />
The conflict is not about playing ! Nooo. Just where to post it. Is it fantasy or WW2 gaming ?<br />
A bit of both, so maybe I'll put the post on both!<br />
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So here goes. Bought an American started set of Scott Bowman, our local purveyor of miniature goodness here on the Kapiti Coast. Scott has a pharmacy that is rapidly being crowded out by a growing line of gaming goodies. If you don't know about it yet, here is the link. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/660992694051676/?fref=nf">Friends of the Hobby Corner</a><br />
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So the starter set was soon followed by the German Schreckwulfen and Nachtjaeger. Dusted off them Dust minis, coat of paint for them all, and last night we let the dogs out!<br />
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I quickly dug out my (now) obsolete 40K terrain, and fantasy terrain, and rapidly brought these into the 20th century. A couple of EWAR french houses and shops, some 20mm railway layout bits and a few pot-scourers, and away we go...the makings of a semi-ruined French village!<br />
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Exciting days coming for Bolt Action fans</h2>
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Looks like both Bolt Action v2 and Konflikt are about ready to launch.</h3>
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Prelude to a game...<br />
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"Konflikt '47 is set in a world very much like ours. In fact, its history is indistinguishable from our own until 1943 when the Manhattan Project's test of a prototype nuclear device opened a rift in the fabric of space. When the Fat Boy atomic bomb was dropped on Dresden on 12 March 1944, it created a second rift, and German scientists quickly set to work studying it.<br />
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Both rifts began to relay signals from unknown sources. These signals were largely indecipherable, but occasionally one would convey a formula or scientific theory that permitted huge technological advances..."<br />
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Looks like there was a collaboration with <a href="http://www.clockworkgoblinminis.co.uk/gallery.html">Clockwork Goblin minis</a> on the futuristic vehicles; produced in 15mm. Anyway they look delightful !</div>
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"Both the US and Germany were reluctant to share these advances with their allies, and in May 1944, Stalin declared the US to be an enemy of the Motherland.<br />
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Fully compatible with the incredibly popular Bolt Action rules, this standalone rulebook takes the war to a completely new level. Players are given everything they need to field forces incorporating the incredible weapons and technologies made possible by the rift signals, and to engage in tabletop battles for supremacy and survival."<br />
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Great review of Konflikt on WWP:<br />
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Using the basic WW2 infantry sets, most Bolt Action players will already be well underway to a Konflik Army...<br />
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So the just beautiful Clockwork goblin 15mm models:<br />
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I'm even thinking of using my Olleys Armies Scrunts or Hysterical Games Panzerfauste minis, and Confrontation Wulfen, if the size fits!<br />
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I really like the look of the Hysterical Games minis:<br />
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<a href="http://www.hystericalgames.co.uk/p/dwarves.html">Panzer Fauste Dwarf Truppen</a><br />
<a href="http://www.hystericalgames.co.uk/p/orcs.html">Panzer Fauste Brits</a><br />
<a href="http://www.hystericalgames.co.uk/p/redacted.html">Undead</a> Russians<br />
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Don't know how I missed the <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hystericalgames/panzerfauste-mechanised-warfare-in-a-mythical-real/description">Kickstarter!</a><br />
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Who does not want a Panzerbär...<br />
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I couldn't make it to the wargames club tonight (like many other Wednesday nights, unfortunately) as I had a meeting on endocrine surgery.<br />
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Very interesting stuff that, all about adrenal glands, thyroid glands and parathyroid glands, mammary glands... So I got home after 9, too late for club. I had to be content with playing with myself.<br />
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No, you dirty minded gamers, you! I have mostly finished my Muslim and Crusader forces, and contented myself by setting them up as a siege. All wargamers will admit to playing with themselves at some point. I even took some photos:<br />
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Lets call it the Siege of Al Zabells.<br />
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El Cid's Spanish Crusaders/Reconquistadors taking on the fortified Moorish desert town of Al Zabells:<br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #fff2cc;">Not slacking on building and painting. Just not posting very much.</span><span style="color: #fff2cc;">I have purposely built and painted by Muslim forces so that they can be mixed and matched to form different factions from the Crescent and Cross book. The buildings are also starting to look middle-eastern (I think)</span><span style="color: #fff2cc;">Anyhow, here goes:</span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A messenger came, blood on his feet and a wound in his chest,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"The Christians are coming!" he said, "I have seen their cross in the west,"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In a rage Saladin struck him down with his knife,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And he said "I know that this man lies,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They quarrel too much, the Christians could never unite! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am invincible, I am the king,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am invincible, and I will win..." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Closer they came, the army of Richard the Lionheart,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Marching by day and night, with soldiers from every part,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And when the Crusaders came over the mountain and they saw Jerusalem,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They started the battle at dawn, taking the city by storm,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With horsemen and bowmen and engines of war,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They broke through the city walls,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Heathens were flying and screaming and dying,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"We are invincible, God is the king,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"I have spent my whole life searching, to find the Golden Rule,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The song of the Crusader has long since gone away...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">...Jerusalem is lost,</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jerusalem is lost,</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jerusalem is lost, </span></div>
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Herman van Kradenburghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02436600778513944817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2416401460350839678.post-57749915944874795112016-06-13T19:03:00.001-07:002016-06-13T19:03:18.967-07:00SAGA: Crescent and Cross. And now for some buildings...SAGA Crescent and Cross. Buildings taking shape<br />
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Been doing some scratch-building of arab style buildings for Saga. Progressing slowly but getting there:<br />
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On my latest tangent I came across some rather unusual (and sometimes startling images when typing in search terms related to my searches for recent posts.</div>
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First off I was looking at Zeltbahnen, the German shelters used in WW2, which led me off on a tangent to the SADF Bivvy, and the cadet forces. I was thinking how, in some senses, it was not really unlike the Hitlerjungend in philosophy, a feeding conduit for the army, and them OMW!</div>
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These pictures from the late 50s appear:</div>
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By the time I got to high school, and had to wear the cadet uniform to school every Wednesday, it was quite different. We wore brown berets. It appears<i> this</i> was the uniform for most of the 1950s through the early 60s. </div>
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Zeltbahn Part II - WW2 German Special forces and in use with the Heer. Getting onto the subject of Camon in general</h2>
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The Zeltbahnen used by specialist forces (Waffen SS and Fallschirmjaeger) pretty much followed their uniform camo patterns.<br />
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The camouflage patterned uniforms were said to reduce casualties by as much as 15% and Heer troops often converted Zeltbahnen into camo smocks by the end of the war. For example, the crews of Stug and other tank destroyer units were not issued with camo uniforms, but are often seen in photographs sporting camo, made from Zeltbahn material by unit tailors or by tailors in occupied areas. The discourse on zeltbahnen unfortunately unravels a bit here, and crosses over into the realm of camouflage patterns.<br />
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German World War II camouflage patterns were disruptive pattern military camouflage designs used for clothing and also for Zeltbahn shelter halves. German camouflage developed from the 1931 Splittertarnmuster ("splinter camouflage pattern"), which combined a pattern of interlocking irregular green, brown, and buff polygons with vertical "rain" streaks.</div>
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The later patterns, all said to have been designed for the Waffen-SS by Johan Schick, evolved into more leaf-like forms with rounded dots or irregular shapes. Camouflage smocks were designed to be reversible, providing camouflage for two seasons, whether summer and autumn, or summer and winter (snow). Distribution was limited to the Waffen-SS, ostensibly because of a patent. Production was limited by shortage of materials, especially of high quality waterproof cotton duck.</div>
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The Reichswehr (Army of the Weimar Republic) started experimenting with camouflage patterns for Wehrmacht uniforms before World War II, and some army units used the Splittertarnmuster ("splinter camouflage pattern"), which was first issued in 1931, and based on the Zeltbahn shelter halves/groundsheets. </div>
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Waffen-SS combat units used various patterns from 1935 onwards. The SS camouflage patterns were designed by Schick, a Munich art professor and then the director of the German camouflage research unit, at the request of an SS Major, Wim Brandt. Brandt was an engineer and the commander of the SS-VT reconnaissance battalion, and he was looking for better camouflage.<br />
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Schick had researched the effect of light on trees in summer and in autumn. These led to the idea of reversible camouflage clothing, with green summer patterns on one side, brown autumn patterns on the other. In 1937, the patterns were field tested by the SS-VT Deutschland regiment, resulting in an estimate that they would cut casualties by fifteen percent.<br />
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<span style="text-align: left;">In 1938, a reversible spring/autumn helmet cover, smock, and sniper's face mask in Schick's forest patterns on waterproof cotton duck were patented for the Waffen-SS. The patent is said to have prevented the Wehrmacht from using the patterns, which became a distinctive emblem of the Waffen-SS during the war. It may be said simpler that one just did not cross the SS.</span></div>
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<b> Zeltbahnen and Camo uniforms : </b>Production of groundsheets, helmet covers and smocks by the Warei, Forster and Joring companies began in November 1938. They were initially hand-printed, limiting deliveries by January 1939 to only 8,400 groundsheets and 6,800 helmet covers and a small number of smocks. By June 1940, machine printing had taken over, and 33,000 smocks were made for the Waffen-SS. Supplies of high quality cotton duck, however, remained critically short throughout the war, and essentially ran out in January 1943. It was replaced by non-waterproof cotton drill cloth.</div>
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The plethora of SS camo patterns used on smocks, zelts and helmet covers causes more heartburn and hypertension amongst modelers trying to get historical accuracy for their model than is really necessary. There is no right answer.<br />
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The patterns were never individually identified or differentiated by the German soldier in the field. The names and designations were invented by collectors in the 1990's for reference purposes.<br />
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The Waffen SS referred to smocks simply as <i>Tarn Jacke - </i>"camo jackets" Asking about "Blurred-edge" or "Plane Tree" models would have resulted in your fellow troopers suspecting you were drunk or smoking shoe polish. The patterns were issued indiscriminately and ran concurrently with one another.<br />
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In many photos, no two men in the same squad appear to have the same pattern smock on. Uniformity of dress by the late stages of the war was really only seen in staged propaganda pictures.<br />
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There is a general consensus and historical reference regarding when certain patterns were officially introduced, but these can be established only by photos and dates on zeltbahns. (Smocks and helmet covers were rarely marked and weren't dated.)<br />
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The patterns really fell into two general categories of manufacture. Hand screened and roller printed.<br />
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Spring/summer and autumn/winter variations, the first dotted camouflage pattern<br />
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The Platanenmuster (plane tree or Sycamore) pattern is the earliest pattern used by the Waffen-SS, and can be seen in the pre-war photographs. This and its derivative Eich-Platenenmuster, are the patterns which incorporate in their dark overprint the mysterious numerals from “1” to “6”, which have been the subject of much debate. </div>
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Production of the original Platanen pattern seems to have ended in by 1942, and Eich-Platenen by 1943, perhaps because the screen printing was uneconomically time consuming. Thrifty manufacturing continued using surplus cloth in this pattern, however, probably until 1944. </div>
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Late RB-numbered Eichenlaub pattern Zeltbahnen exist with autumn reversible edging made of Platenen pattern cloth printed (for economy?) on one side only-the hidden interior was left in natural white, detectable today in damaged examples. There is plausible reports of Autumn pattern Platenenmuster smocks and helmet covers left in natural white on the other side.</div>
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<b>Rauchtarnmuster ("Smoke camouflage pattern or blurred edge pattern "; 1939–1944):</b><br />
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SS-Rauchtarnmuster or “smoke camouflage pattern” sometimes termed “Blurred edge pattern" </div>
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This is reasonably descriptive of this camouflage, but some examples show less “blurred” effect. The German term aptly defines all the minor variations of this widely used pattern, whose black or dark overprint is very suggestive of drifting smoke. It is actually a variant of Platanenmuster with identical spring and autumn base colors, but with the “smokey” black overprint substituted fr the spotted “plane tree” overprint.</div>
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Photos have confirmed use of this long-lived pattern from 1939 (helmet covers and smocks) until at least 1944 (two-piece padded reversible winter suits). It was probably used for more different types of regulation SS garments than any other pattern, though examples are relatively rare. It is found on Zeltbahnen, first and second model helmet covers, field caps, and smocks-including up to the very last smocks, made of herringbone twill (HBT) linen. </div>
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<b>Palmenmuster ("Palm tree pattern"; circa 1941–?): spring/autumn variations</b></div>
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<b>Beringtes Eichenlaubmuster ("Oak leaf B"; 1942–1945)</b><br />
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The “B” pattern was a crude reproduction of the “A” pattern, it had softer edges and outlined designs. </div>
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Oak Leaf was not discontinued with the introduction if the Dot pattern and continued being produced through 1945.</div>
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<b>Sumpfmuster ("Swamp pattern"; 1943): a blurred form of splittermuster; summer/winter </b><b>variations: the green-brown smocks were reversible to white snow camouflage</b></div>
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<b>Erbsenmuster ("pea dot"; 1944–1945): </b><br />
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A six-colour (black, tan, olive, pale green, white, and red-brown) pattern of irregular black stripes over splotches of reddish-brown and green, on a pale green field. Most surviving uniforms have faded to almost white, and uniforms offered for sale are probably reproductions. It was designed to absorb infra-red, but saw only limited usage. However, it inspired the postwar US ERDL pattern, and also the Swiss post-war camo.</div>
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A mix of different styles of Camo was the rule rather than the exception by the end of the war:<br />
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<b>Production of Camo: </b><br />
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<b style="text-align: left;"> Hand screened patterns:</b><span style="text-align: left;"> The earliest patterns are known as SS-VT and Plane Tree. These were overly complex and labour intensive to print. The pattern itself is over 70 inches long, about the full height of a zeltbahn, the item around which the patterns were originally designed. The cut lines for zeltbahns were actually incorporated into the pattern. (That's what the odd lines and diagonal blocks are on plane tree smocks.) </span></div>
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There were in fact THREE Plane Tree patterns which were numbered 1/2, 3/4 and 5/6. Zelts of these patterns would form a continuous pattern when buttoned together, regardless of combination. It appears that zelts were intended to be assembled with the same number on both panels (i.e.: 4/4, 5/5, etc.) but, in practice, this went out the window. The significance of the numbers appears to be mainly to keep each zeltbahn consistent with itself (right and left panels being the same pattern.) Further complicating the matter, is that, although referred to as "Plane Tree 3/4", it is actually two patterns. Not 3 and 4 but rather "right" and "left" as zeltbahns must be cut from 2 rolls of fabric. Thus, the 3 commonly known plane tree patterns actually consist of 6 unique sets of screens. </div>
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For additional headaches, later Plane Tree (known as "overprint") used only the black color screens from the Plane Tree patterns, which were then screened on top of the 3 lighter colors of Oak A, which had been roller printed, to save time.<br />
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Therefore, the Plane Tree family of patterns consists of 3 Plane Tree patterns (all colors hand screened) and 3 Overprint patterns (roller printed Oak A plus one hand screened color of Plane Tree.) If you want to count the right and left patterns, that's 12. Plus SS-VT. Just to confuse you.</div>
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<b>Roller Printed:</b> In order to save on production time, in 1940-41, the SS began to switch to roller printing, automated via rollers, much like a newspaper printing press. The "repeat" of the pattern is dictated by the circumference of the roller, which was about 18". The roller printed patterns are Blurred Edge, Palm, Oak A and Oak B. </div>
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What's "historically correct"? Oak A appears in photos in 1942, and Oak B in 1943.<br />
Despite some conventionally ignorant "wisdom",<br />
Palm smocks, despite being christened "early War" are not difficult to find in photos from the fighting in Normandy. It appears that Plane Tree smocks were very prevalent, if not predominant even through the summer of '44. </div>
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<b style="text-align: center;">Note: <i>Palm pattern was never used for zeltbahnen. Only on smocks, helmet covers and caps. This is probably the only place you could really go wrong, if you wanted to nit-pick !</i></b><br />
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All of the patterns were in use by late 1943.<br />
All were used concurrently.<br />
If you are doing a pre-1943 model stick to the plane tree patterns for SS. As for plane tree, all appeared at the same time, the numbers do not denote later years or any similar characteristic.<br />
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Anyone who claims that a specific unit only wore a specific pattern is a complete idiot and any of their future advice should be regarded with suspicion. Propaganda photos or new recruit photos may lead you to want to believe otherwise, BUT:<br />
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All patterns were issued indiscriminately until the end of the war.<br />
Even Italian camouflage material was used by the SS.<br />
Simply p<span style="text-align: center;">ick the one that suits your model. It really does not matter that much.</span></div>
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Reenactors wearing Erbsenmuster (Pea-dot) camo, with Splinter tarn zeltbahn tents</div>
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<b>Falschirmjaeger Splintermuster</b><br />
The knockensack (jump smock) was a variant of the Splinter or Sumpf muster issued to the Heer soldiers<br />
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<br />Herman van Kradenburghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02436600778513944817noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2416401460350839678.post-58278289422076470672016-05-27T03:12:00.000-07:002016-05-27T03:19:35.262-07:00The Zeltbahn. Off on a tangent (again): Zeltbahns and Bivvies<h2>
Of Zeltbahns and Bivvies (Part 1) </h2>
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I rip open the Bolt Action package. Great ! Hanomag, Late War Wehrmacht Grenadiers, GIs. Some of the German figures are wearing Zeltbahns. Bivvies. That's what they were called in South Africa. Bivvies. Short for Bivouac, makeshift tent. The tent (well sort of) that is a poncho, that is a stretcher, that is camo, that is a ground sheet, that is...<br />
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My mind races back. I am 16. I am at Veld School. Preparation really for national service, for conscription into the SADF, to fight in the border war that raged in Angola and Namibia from 1966 to 1989.<br />
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All of my childhood and subadult life was dominated by this conflict. Military cadets in khaki brown uniform from the age of 14, Veld School and leadership courses through ages 16-18.<br />
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Some came back carried in their bivvies...<br />
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<i>" Wees Paraat!"</i> Be prepared! One year of conscription, quickly became two years. Called up for military service at age 16 for the first time. Service could be deferred if you were still at school or university studying for something the military could use, but only as long as you continued to pass your exams.<br />
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My first conscription papers came ... Report to 5 SAI (SA Infantry) Ladysmith, then it was 3 SAI Kimberley, 6 SAI Grahamstown, 7 SAI Phalaborwa. (Everybody feared that one)<br />
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The direction of the call-ups changed:<br />
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As I was studying and in hospital training, I was given exemption from National service until I had fully qualified as doctor. You had to apply for this exemption.<br />
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So I am 16 again. In the pouring rain. A forced night march. Wearing the bivvie as a poncho. My legs are soaked from mid-thigh down. Full pack on my back. Water squelching in my boots. A 20 km night march. In winter, in the pouring rain. Shivering. At least no gun to carry...I still have that Bivvie.<br />
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So yeah, I look at the models with Zeltbahns. Interesting word that. Zelt. Bahn.<br />
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Means "Tent Strip" Mostly interpreted as "Tent quarter" in translations and discourses on the internet.<br />
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The intent was that 4 of these triangular bits/strips of canvas would make a small tent<br />
<i>(Zelt </i>= Tent in German, <i>Bahn =</i> strip, a term also used for roads, railways, etc. (<i>Autobahn, Eisenbahn</i>)<br />
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A simple piece of equipment, but a multi-faceted life-saver for many a soldier.<br />
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<b>The Zeltbahn</b> hails from the first world war, and the interwar years. Originally it was square, like the 1980s bivvie so familiar to SA troopies.<br />
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The types of historic zeltbahn can be classified according to their shape. Each type has standardised dimensions and button hole arrangement, which allows them to be combined to make up larger shelters or tents.<br />
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The Zeltbahn was a multi-purpose piece of equipment that was issued to every soldier at the beginning of his basic training. This simple but ingenious item could be combined to make tents or shelters of various sizes, for all sorts of camouflage and as a rain cape, an improvised floatation device or an emergency stretcher. German army regulation Heeresdienstvorschrift HDv 205/1 issued on 20 April 1932 with an amendment in 1937 specified how the Zeltbahn 31 was to be used.<br />
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<b>Zeltbahn tents and shelters</b><br />
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<b>Zeltbahn shelter</b><br />
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A single Zeltbahn could be used to provide protection against wind and rain by arranging the shelter quarter at an angle with the tip attached to a tree, post or similar object at breast height and the lower edge pegged to the ground. The same method could be used against walls, slopes, trenches, etc., with the wide edge at the top, if necessary. The top could be attached using a guy rope, hook or something similar.<br />
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Single Zeltbahn used as a simple shelter<br />
Tent half<br />
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Two Zeltbahnen buttoned together on a long side could be used to provide cover against wind and weather from behind and the side for 2 or 3 men.<br />
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The tent half could be supported by a tent pole (made of 4 pole sections) and a guy rope. It could also be attached to a tree, wall, etc., as described above.<br />
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Two Zeltbahn quarters used to make a shelter for 2 or 3 men<br />
Shelters and tents as described above could be erected very quickly and used when there were not enough shelter quarters available to make a complete tent or when special circumstances, such the vicinity of the enemy, required a high level of readiness or to hide small outposts from view in suitable terrain. Typical examples of this were for positions such as sentry and observation posts, machine gun crews and weapons pits, signals troops, command posts, etc.<br />
A helmet was frequently placed on top to enhance the water resistant qualities of the shelter<br />
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This is the basic enclosed tent that nominally offered space for at least four men. To build the tent, four shelter quarters were buttoned together leaving one side open. This tent skin was then laid out in the shape of a square and pegged at the two corners of one side. The tent was then lifted from below with a pole made of four sections and the other two corners were pegged. The unbuttoned side served as the entrance. A canopy could be made by undoing the buttons on both sides of one section and supporting it with two poles, each made of four sections, and securing it with two guy ropes. The sides were also pegged at the bottom using rope loops attached to the middle eyes.<br />
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Many other variations on this basic theme was possible, all requiring more zelt bahnen and increasing in complexity.<br />
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Tents were meant to be erected in such a way that they offered the smallest possible surface of attack for the wind.<br />
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The tent sections were to be buttoned together on the ground to form the skin before the tent was erected. The edges were to be buttoned in such a way that the overlap pointed away from the wind to prevent rain and snow from being blown between the edges of the tent sections. All sections with the tip at the bottom (eight-man and house tents) had to be arranged to overlap.<br />
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Regulations recommended that a stone or piece of wood be placed under poles to prevent them from sinking into soft ground. Improvised pegs or poles were to be used if there were not enough. The slit at the centre of a tent section could be held open using a suitable stick for observation or ventilation purposes.<br />
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A small trench could be dug around the edge of the tent to help rain water drain away. The spoil from the trench could be used to cover the edge of the tent on the ground to make the tent as wind and waterproof as possible.<br />
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This type includes the standard 1892 pattern issued by the German armed forces from the end of the nineteenth century and throughout World War I until at least the early 1930's, and variants used by other nations, also throughout this period and post-World War II, e.g. by Switzerland, Russia, France, Italy, the East German NVA and other Eastern Bloc nations.<br />
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<b>Triangular: The WW2 Zeltbahn 31</b><br />
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The Zeltbahn was a multi-purpose piece of equipment that was issued to every soldier at the beginning of his basic training. This simple but ingenious item could be combined to make tents or shelters of various sizes, for all sorts of camouflage and as a rain cape, an improvised floatation device or an emergency stretcher. German army regulation Heeresdienstvorschrift HDv 205/1 issued on 20 April 1932 with an amendment in 1937 specified how the Zeltbahn 31 was to be used.<br />
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The 1931 pattern - patented as the "Warei" Zeltbahn, replaced the square Reichswehr pattern. It was produced in plain colours and a variety of camouflage patterns and was used by all branches of the German armed forces, party organisations and police and auxiliary units. Similar shelter quarters were also produced by other nations with their own camouflage patterns in the post-war period, e.g. France and Sweden. Plain green and grey 1931 pattern shelter quarters were also used by the German police and Bundesgrenzschutz Federal German border police (BGS) post-war.<br />
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The BGS and Austrian armed forces also used a modified triangular pattern that was not dimensionally compatible with the standard 31 pattern. Unlike the triangular 31 pattern, the bottom edge of this type is not straight.<br />
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The Zeltbahn 31 pattern forms an isosceles triangle with a narrow rectangular section that appears to have been added along one side. This section makes it possible to refer to one edge of a triangular Zeltbahn as the base or bottom edge. The German term for this is <i>Grundlinie</i>. (<i>Ground line</i>) The term for each of the other sides is <i>Schenkelseite, (limb or connection side)</i> referred to here as long or side edges. The corner opposite the bottom edge is referred to as the tip or top corner throughout this site. Although it may seem trivial to point this out, it is the simplest way to differentiate between the three corners and sides when describing eye and button hole arrangements and their variants.<br />
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Post-war shelter halves and sections:<br />
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Similar to the American design and still used by the Bundeswehr today, is a true shelter half and a completely different shape to its predecessors. It has been produced in plain olive green and at least two different camouflage patterns. These halves are made up of rectangular sections, the short sides of which are not straight, but fashioned in such a way that they form pointed or triangular end sections, thus forming the end flaps of the pup tent. The Norwegian armed forces also used a shelter section in the shape of two triangles joined together to form a lozenge.<br />
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<b>Zeltbahn camouflage patterns</b><br />
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Shelter quarters can be found in a wide variety of camouflage patterns, many of which are highly similar or related in some way. The first regular camouflage shelter quarter material was introduced by the Italian armed forces in 1929. This pattern continued in use almost unchanged until it started to be replaced by more a modern pattern in the 1980s.<br />
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Shelter quarters were also produced by Germany and other nations of plain material without any camouflage pattern.<br />
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<b>Wehrmacht camouflage patterns</b><br />
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The German armed forces used a range of similar designs that evolved from the early 1930s until 1945. The basic style is referred to as the <i>splinter pattern</i> by most collectors and authors.<br />
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<b>Army splinter pattern</b><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">Splinter pattern camouflage material, Dark and light sides of reversible splinter pattern material</span><br />
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This was the basic pattern developed for the German armed forces in 1932. The original German term for this design was Buntfarbenaufdruck.<br />
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The pattern was roller-applied and repeated approximately every 44 cm. The standard design was printed in lighter colours on one side of the Zeltbahn material, and more subdued colours on the other.<br />
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It was used for the standard camouflaged Zeltbahn 31 issued to all units of the army, navy and airforce until 1945. It consisted of green and brown splintered designs printed on a grey/green or grey/tan base colour with a further disruptive "raindrop" design printed on top.<br />
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The coloured geometric design was not new, as similar colours and styles had already been used on German helmets during World War One and even earlier on naval vessels.<br />
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<b>Luftwaffe splinter pattern</b><br />
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The German air force also developed a slightly smaller version of this design for the camouflaged paratroopers smock introduced in 1941 and the field jacket for Luftwaffe ground troops introduced in 1942. This style is often referred to as splinter B. The only other documented use of the Luftwaffe pattern material was for helmet covers, grenade pouches and ammunition pouches developed for use by paratroopers. With the exception of scraps of material used for small and often hidden reinforcing sections of Zeltbahnen, the Luftwaffe pattern material is not known to have been used for shelter quarters.<br />
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This modified version of the standard splinter design was introduced in 1943. A red-brown shade was added and the clear-cut edges of the splinter shapes were diffused, although the basic structure of the pattern remained. The pattern changed again in 1944 and the edges between the splinter areas virtually disappeared. The raindrop design was retained throughout.<br />
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This pattern saw widespread use on smocks, padded winter jackets and trousers, toques, helmet covers, gloves, camouflage aprons and gas protection suits. However, it was not used for Zeltbahn shelter quarters.<br />
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Scott Bowman comes around for a demo game of Bolt Action. Have been watching from the side-lines with some interest, but resisting the urge. World war 2 gaming has always been my thing. I do enjoy FoW; but find the rules excessively fiddly, and they tend to get into the way of the flow of play. In my opinion anyway.<br />
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Having recently had a flood in my mancave following a burst water heating cylinder upstairs, it was a delight to get some gaming action in at long last. Started out with a number of games of fantasy Ninth Age with Macrae Louden, and then Scott came around with some late war Normandy action.<br />
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Bolt action can be played with a relatively small outlay by the looks of things, and not requiring a huge amount of space like massed army games do, as it appears to be a squad or company sized game, with some armour support.<br />
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Anyhow a simple game of king of the hill or find and retrieve ensued.<br />
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I enjoyed the randomness of the turns, drawing from a pool of activation dice rather than the usual You-go-I-go. Totally hooked. What can I say? Just take my money!<br />
This game really offers a lot of what I enjoy in wargaming.<br />
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Quick, fast-paced, fun, egalitarian, not too many fiddly rules, WYSWYG. Great for a few hours of gaming fun. Serious or not so serious.<br />
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Being a greenhorn at this I am not going to do a batrep, just share a few snaps of Scott's beautifully painted models</div>
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Easy to assemble models, in a variety of poses and choice of weapons</div>
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Now available from <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Paraparaumu-Beach-Pharmacy-1413364908990368/">Paraparaumu Beach Pharmacy</a> </div>
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(I went back for the Panzer IV F/G/H model yesterday)</div>
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Scott can also source many other figures and stock an extensive range of modelling tools and paint for us enthusiasts. He was able to get me these British Colonial troops (Perry Miniatures) for the Sudan and Afghan campaigns of the late 18th century.</div>
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If you don't look too close, and paint them with red jackets they will probably do for the Boer and Zulu wars, and Indian campaigns too. </div>
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Good news for all us Kapiti Coasters. Fellow modeler and gamer, Scott Bowman has opened a modeling corner in his pharmacy in Paraparaumu beach !<br />
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He will soon be stocking the Warlord Games range, Woodlands scenics, Army Painter and Vallejo.<br />
Bolt Action will be the primary thrust, but I have already ordered other figures from the Perry Range<br />
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" Guys , I am going to be opening a hobby corner in the pharmacy (Paraparaumu Beach Pharmacy), and will be stocking a range of Warlord Games products .<br />
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My primary thinking was Bolt Action, as this games system seems on the rise,<br />
and the Army painter range of paints brushes washed and hobby tools etc.<br />
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I have also had some interest from comments about Frostgrave, so could add that if wanted? (would you just want rules or figures too?)"<br />
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He attached a products list, which you can get from him: " I was surprised at what extent of stuff is on there - PERRY Miniatures, Judge Dredd, Terminator, Gates of Antares, Hail Caesar, Black Powder, 4Ground Scenery etc etc."<br />
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"I won't obviously be able to keep everything in stock - its going to be a hobby corner after all, not a hobby shop! ;-)<br />
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I will be able to place regular orders for whatever you want and will be receiving stock via airmail, so fairly quick (1-2 weeks) supply time (Minimum order level having been attained).will try and keep pricing competitive, though cant promise to be able to beat a certain large gorilla in the corner - but I will be a 'bricks and mortar store' on your doorstep... so any support you can give me will be greatly appreciated."<br />
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Scott will be running a loyalty scheme as well, so head down his way for your hobby fix!<br />
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Facebook page: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Paraparaumu-Beach-Pharmacy-1413364908990368/">https://www.facebook.com/Paraparaumu-Beach-Pharmacy-1413364908990368/</a><br />
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101 years ago today, the fateful landings to try and secure a strangle-hold on the Dardanelles forged the nationhood of the antipodean cousin countries as we know it today. </div>
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100 years ago the first ANZAC commemoration services were held. </div>
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Lest we forget. </div>
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Sacrifices that thousands have made on the battlefields of the world to guarantee our freedom. </div>
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Sometimes in error, sometimes in folly, sometimes with intent on a common goal or idea. </div>
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Memorial to Mustaf Kemal (later honoured as Ataturk) </div>
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Just before Xmas my SAGA Crescent and Cross Arab/Saracen/Muslim faction and dice arrived.<br />Been slacking on blogging ( but not painting, converting or modelling)</h3>
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I had already been converting my long unpainted (read base-coated only) LOTR figures to represent Crusade age warriors. Humming Chris de Burg's "Crusader" I thus set to work...<br />
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"What do I do next?" said the bishop to the priest,</div>
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"I have spent my whole life waiting, preparing for the feast,</div>
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The king of heathen Saracen has seized the holy cross;"</div>
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For the noblemen and sinners, and knights of ready hand,</div>
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Who will be the Lord's Crusader, send word through all the land, </div>
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Jerusalem is lost,Jerusalem is lost,Jerusalem is lost ..." </div>
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They tell me that Jerusalem has fallen to the hand,</div>
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Of some bedeviled eastern Heathen who has seized the Holy Land;"</div>
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Jerusalem is lost,Jerusalem is lost,Jerusalem is lost"</div>
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(Any resemblance to LOTR characters living or dead; is non-intentional and completely incidental)</div>
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Archers. Found it an interesting challenge to paint the amrour as leather rather than metal, and I am quite happy with the result</div>
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Merry Christmas and Happy New year.... From Dad...to Dad!</h2>
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Xmas has come and gone, with yours truly working all the way through. Little time for blogging, less time for gaming, snatching a few moments to paint here and there.</div>
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Took the boat trailer for a warrant of fitness this am, dusted off the fishing rods.</div>
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Complete novice agains couple-of games- (ahem) veteran. Great fun.</div>
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Twice that has happened to my Viking warlords. Starting to hate that ability. Anyhow, loving Saga. Very satisfying models to paint too. Nice to run the History channel's Vikings series as background on the PC. Or Youtube search for Norse music. Lots out there. Stirring stuff.</div>
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<br />Herman van Kradenburghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02436600778513944817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2416401460350839678.post-44463298645007503252015-06-08T05:30:00.002-07:002015-12-07T01:55:56.134-08:00KWC Open Day: Batrep of the Defense of Niedlingen<h2>
Open Day FoW in 20mm Game: Defense of Niedlingen, East Prussia (Winter 1944-45)</h2>
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The (fictitious) East Prussian Town of Niedlingen is situated a about 600 hundred kilometers east of Berlin, near Arnswalde.<br />
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In early February 1945, the 11th SS Panzer Battalion Nordland was ordered onto the offensive as a part of Operation Sonnenwende, the plan to destroy a Soviet salient and to relieve the troops besieged in the town of Arnswalde.<br />
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The offensive had been conceived by Generaloberst Heinz Guderian as a massed assault all along the front but had then been reduced by Hitler to the level of a local counter-attack. Initially, Nordland's attack achieved a total tactical surprise and the division soon advanced to the banks of Lake Ihna in all sectors. However, as the Soviet forces realized what was happening, resistance grew stiffer and the advance began to slow. On 17 February, the division reached Arnswalde and relieved the exhausted garrison. Over the next few days the town was secured and the surviving civilians were evacuated.<br />
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Soon however, strong Soviet counter-attacks halted the division's advance, and Steiner called off the attack, pulling the III (Germanic) SS Panzer Corps back to Stargard and Stettin on the northern Oder River. The 10. SS-Panzer-Division "Frundsberg", led by Brigadeführer Heinz Harmel, also took part in the operation after being detached from the II SS Panzerkorps in December 1944 (at the time engaged on the Western Front).<br />
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By 21 February the conclusion was arrived-at that no more useful gains could be made against an increasingly powerful enemy without incurring undue casualties, so Steiner ordered a general withdrawal back to the north bank of the river Ihna.<br />
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Elements of the 11th SS Panzer Division Frundsberg occupy the Town of Niedlingen, East Prussia</div>
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Russian armour arrive on the banks of the frozen Ihna River</div>
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The fuel dump (Soviet Objective 1) is defended by a Pak 40 and MG 42 along with infantry</div>
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<b>Turn one:</b> Colonel Bruce-chev approaches the two bridges, and orders a unit of Cossacks and a unit of Partisans to clear the minefield. As the Don Cossacks had fought on both sides of the war, they are considered expendable, as are the partisans. </div>
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The second Soviet objective is the town centre of Niedlingen. The only road approach is protected by two stugs and several Pak 40s. The town centre is held by a number of Panther tanks. In the fields beyond the town is a unit of Nebelwerfers and an artillery battery of 7 LeFH 18 howitzers.</div>
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Her Oberst is ably assisted by Herr Leutnant Romlet in his first battle. Fresh out of Panzer schule he is very knowledgable on armour and eager for battle. </div>
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The Cossacks cavalry charge the defenders, mowing them down with SMG fire. The last men standing are two artillery observers. They fall to merciless flashing sabres and flailing hooves in the assault phase. The nuns and the cossacks take the objective</div>
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A resounding victory to Colonel Bruce-chev and his Red Guard Tankovy<br />
<br />Herman van Kradenburghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02436600778513944817noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2416401460350839678.post-53100314842743449552015-06-08T04:02:00.001-07:002015-06-08T04:02:29.746-07:00Soviet Arms Factory on my Table-top - Getting ready for KWC Open DaySoviet Arms Factory<br />
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We decide to have Late war Soviet Push for Berlin game at the annual open day.<br />
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I realised that I had a great deal of unpainted and half-built Armourfast Soviet tanks and tank busters sitting under my work area, so out came the glue and paint:<br />
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Herman van Kradenburghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02436600778513944817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2416401460350839678.post-32860901762177556742015-06-03T18:32:00.001-07:002015-06-03T18:32:15.691-07:00Kapiti Wargames Club Open Day 2015Reminder of our club's open day this Sunday<br />
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I will be doing a FoW 20mm Defense of the Reich German Panzer vs Soviet Guards Demo Game<br />
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Table-top strategy games with miniature models have led to a
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Weta Workshop on his World War 1 Battle of Chunuk Bair diorama project. The
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The Kapiti Wargames Club (KWC) have their annual Open Day on
Sunday 7 June from 10 am at the Paraparaumu Community Centre (Ngahina Street,
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and painting talents of local figure painters and wargamers. The event offers
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Following on from my post on the Hinterhalt (Ambush) Camo used in the Battle of the Bulge and the Battle for Germany, my thoughts swung to the conflict on the Eastern Front.<br />
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My proctrastination box delivered more Panzers in need of the brush. Tigers and Panthers came out. <br />
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Panthers from 3 different 1/72 plastic model producers, and 3 different models (Ausfuhrungs). </div>
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Early (D) model exhaust configuration</div>
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My infantry are all set on autumn bases, some with a light dusting of snow terrain, so they can be used in late summer, autumn, winter or early spring. For a winter game I would need appropriate armour though.<br />
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My attention was drawn to one tank in my collection in particular that was a hand-me-down. It was painted in honey-comb grey pattern, almost reminiscent of WW1 disruptive camo schemes, but less garish. It was based on the early to mid-war dunkelgrau paint schemes, with the occasional dark blue and green bit thrown in. I decided to give the Panzer force a similar look.<br />
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Next I decided to winterise the tanks. Tried two techniques, one being Humbrol's Winter pigment dusted on with a brush, and the other Spraypaint. The latter gave mixed results, mostly due to a malfunctioning, nozzle, leaving me more that just a bit miffed. That would teach me to be too lazy to clean the airbrush. The paint job was almost completely ruined. So a-weatherising, there we go...</div>
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ANZAC Diorama and New Zealand Room finally opened</h2>
After many delays and much anticipation the New Zealand Room and the Chunuk Bair Diorama at the Dominion Museum (National War Memorial in Wellington) finally opened its door to the public today.<br />
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Opening of "Gallipoli: the New Zealand Story in Colour" (Photo Mark Tantrum - mark tantrum.com)<br />
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I was again fortunate enough to share in a behind the scenes look at the New Zealand Room. On Friday night I joined the Campbell clan on a Night at the Museum tour with Rhys Jones. Thank you again Rhys for the wonderful opportunity to see the diorama and the personalised tour you gave us.<br />
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Like the rest of the experience, it was just priceless.<br />
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I will post photos and my impressions on the rest of the exhibition separately, but now the embargo has been lifted; the first look at the NZ Room:</div>
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The purpose of this room is to commemorate the New Zealanders' first taste of war, the disastrous WW1 Dardanelles campaign, and specifically the Gallipoli landings, and the attack on Chunuk Bair.<br />
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The topography of the terrain was lasercut from actual measurements by Weta Workshop and the terrain and emplacements based on air recce photographs taken in 1915.<br />
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Colourised prints of actual WW1 photographs make the distant memories spring to startling life.<br />
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The lighting was not yet set up properly when we had our tour. WETA Workshop workers were still installing displays; and my photographs are so-so, anyway, here they are:<br />
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Peter Jackson snuck a little cameo of himself into the diorama; Brownie box camera in hand</div>
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I have tried to use the historical time-line to explain the battle as seen in the diorama:<br />
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<b>The defense of the trenches at Chunuk Bair was the high water mark of the attack, and the diorama depicts the defense of Chunuk Bair on 8-9 August 2015:</b><br />
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The attack, which began on 6 August, was carried out by two columns of the New Zealand Infantry Brigade. They were to meet at Rhododendron Spur and then move up to the summit of Chunuk Bair. It was an ambitious plan that depended on speedy execution.<br />
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1. The operation started well – men of the New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade and the Maori Contingent successfully cleared the way for the assault columns. But delays meant that the attack on the summit was ordered before all the infantrymen had reached the Spur.<br />
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View North towards the Summit and Apex from the South (Seaward side on the Map): Rhododendron Ridge and NZ Mounted Rifles and Maori Contingent</div>
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2. The Auckland Battalion assaulted first and failed. The commander of the Wellington Battalion, Malone, refused to sacrifice his men in a daylight attack and insisted on waiting until night. Malone was a tough but respected commander from Taranaki who regularly put himself on the line for the welfare of his men. He allegedly told his superior, Brigadier-General Johnston: ‘We are not taking orders from you people… My men are not going to commit suicide.’</div>
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NZ Mounted Rifles holding Rhododendron Ridge</div>
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Auckland Rifles digging in after suffering horrendous casualties</div>
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The Assault on the summit meets with stiff opposition. </div>
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Corporal Cyril Bassett hauling telegraph line up the hill. Under continuous fire Bassett succeeded in laying a telephone line from the old position to the new one on Chunuk Bair. He received the only Victoria Cross awarded to a New Zealander in the Gallipoli campaign. </div>
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Another Cameo - Auckland Rifles: Rhys Jones pressing home the attack </div>
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Malone closer to the summit. He was killed by Allied shells later in the day</div>
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The Wellington Battalion took and occupied the summit before dawn on 8 August. With sunrise came a barrage of fire from Turks holding higher ground to the north. </div>
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3. A desperate struggle to hold Chunuk Bair ensued. It was not until after dark that the Otago Battalion and the Wellington Mounted Rifles arrived to reinforce the 70 Wellington Battalion men (out of 760) who were still holding the line. Malone had been killed by an Allied shell at about 5 p.m.</div>
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Thousands of Turks attack the summit next morning</div>
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The Wellington Rifles repel wave after wave of Ottoman attackers</div>
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4. The New Zealanders were relieved on the night of 9/10 August by 2 British battalions, but these quickly succumbed to a counter-attack led by Mustafa Kemal, who was to become the founding President of Turkey. (http://www.nzhistory.net.nz)</div>
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I am proud to have played a small part in producing this awesome diorama. It is dedicated to the memory of the men who paid the highest price in Gallipoli. Lest we forget.</div>
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Rhododendron Ridge today, looking towards the summit</div>
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