A Nice Map of the Battle of Trenton

Map of the Battle of Trenton

I want to thank Ed D. for sending me a copy of this map showing the American attack on the Hessian garrison at Trenton on December 26, 1776.

I like how it adds an element of 3D graphics to the map. It reminds me of the maps in the Amrican Heritage history books on the American Civil War. Somewhere, buried in the deep recesses of my memory, is the thought that the author of those maps might have also done one for the Battle of Trenton.

This map is also very helpful for my planning of the game table terrain, 

The one problem with depicting this battle on a six feet wide table is that I have to delete the action of Sullivan's division at the bottom of the map because there is no room for them in my 28mm set up. My home table is twelve feet long, but I have a 15 feet long canvas winter mat that I will be using in my convention games, so that gives me an extra three feet of space on either end of the table.

Painting Update

I finished my 12th regiment of Continentals and two regiments of the Hessians. The third regiment, the Knyphausen Fusiliers are on hold until I receive some new castings that I made and are currently at Griffin Moulds. They are making the moulds for the new figures and then spinning the castings for me.

The new Hessian fusilier figures include: standing firing, standing second rank at present arms, a standing drummer, a marching fusilier and a marching drummer. Since Hessian fusilier and grenadier officers wore tricorn hats, I can use my existing Fife and Drum Miniatures officer figures.