Fife and Drum Miniatures and Minden Miniatures is holding its first ever Fourth of July Summer Sale starting June 30, 2022 and running through July 6, 2022.
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| The Spirit of '76 Vignette |
When you check out your shopping cart in our web store, enter the coupon code Spirit76 and the 20% discount will be automatically applied to your order.
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| George Washington (left) and Nathaniel Green (right) |
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| General Nathaniel Green and 1st Continental Dragoon Standard Bearer |
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Mounted American Militia
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AWI Hessian Musketeers
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SYW Minden Personality Figures.
French Marshall Broglie (left) and Lt. General Chevert (right) |
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| Minden Austrian Cuirassiers |
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| French Marshall Maurice de Saxe |
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Minden Miniatures Prussian Musketeers
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| Minden Miniatures French Fusiliers |
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Why in the caption of your photos does Marshal de Saxe keep his particle and why Marshal de Broglie and Lieutenant de Chevert lost it?
ReplyDeleteI'm assuming that "particle" = marshal's baton? Chevert wasn't a marshal at the time and I will have to take a closer look at the Broglie figure.
DeleteIn French the particule is the term "de" which designates for the aristocrats the place of origin of their family. Like "von" in German and "van" in Dutch it precedes the family name. In French we designate the person with the particle; duke de Montmorency; prince de Condé duke de Malborough. When we speak of the family we say: "les Condés", "les Montmorency". There is an exception. Names with a single syllable always keep the particle like " General de Gaulle". Regarding Marshal de Broglie, his name is written with two syllables but it is not pronounced "Broglie" but "Breuil". There is therefore only one syllable.
DeleteOooh - very tempting... but I really don't need any more AWI - well not at present anyway...maybe in twelve months' time when you do the second Independence Day sale....??!
ReplyDeleteI'd suggest that you strike while the iron is hot. :)
DeleteVery tempting, Jim, but I do not think the carrier pigeons are reliably reaching the Land of Oz yet! Pity. This post also reminds me that I never did buy a Spirit of '76 vignette from you (yet) ;-D
ReplyDeleteI think that Oz is now accepting packages from the USA. I mailed one last week and it hasn't been returned (yet).
DeleteThe anonymous comment is from Rohan....my version of Apple Safari is blocking Google comments at present!!
ReplyDeleteI was having that problem too, but I forget how I fixed it. Try googling a description of the problem and a number of pages will turn up that describe a fix for the problem. I think that it has something to do with your Settings within the Blogger app.
DeleteExcellent French commanders - although I would not know for which battle I would need the Maréchal de Saxe in a carriage.
ReplyDeleteFor anything during the War of Austrian Succession, particularly at Fontenoy. de Saxe had a bad leg that day and needed a wicker carriage to move around the battlefield.
DeleteYou got me! Glad I checked out your blog today and was able to take advantage of your sale. I have ordered a few French Valliere 12's, for field artillery. I have also been looking around for heavy British guns as opposed to light battalion guns, but have not found any on the market. Do you have any conversion suggestions?
ReplyDeleteYou got me! Could not resist your July 4th sale, and ordered a few more goodies for the collection. From Canada I send best wishes to the United States, our best friend and neighbour (sorry, Canadian spelling) for a very happy July 4th!
ReplyDeleteBelated happy 4th July. Order sent last night Jim so I can do some Brunswick and Hessians for my pragmatic army. Now lets see if it gets past the perfidious UK postal office without a surcharge.
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