The Battle of the Boyne was fought in 1690 between two claimants of the Irish, Scottish and English thrones, the Catholic King James and the Protestant King William across the river Boyne near Drogheda in the Republic of Ireland (not called that back t…
From Ray:For my 10th entry, we’re crossing the Irish sea back to Scotland, here we have two units that fought on either side at the Battle of Killicrankie.Firstly we have the very small troop of Scots Cavalry, there were only 40 men in the troop, hence…
From Ray:Back to Killiecrankie for my 7th entry. These 2 units are the Williamite Cavalry regts Bellhaven and Annadale. They didn’t do very well in the battle, in fact as soon as they saw and heard the Highlanders charging they both promptly ran off, s…
….and brief report! The war was also known as The Nine Years War, The War of the League of Augsburg and the The War of the Palatine Succession I believe and ran from 1688-1697……Some of the Rejects got together to play a game of the Nine Years War…
Sir John Hanmar’s regtI’ve been chatting on TMP, to fellow Nine Years War nut John , otherwise known as “cantbeatdavy”, he’s been busy painting up regiments for the Battles of the Boyne and Aughrim. John’s been using quite a few of my flags for his fig…
Ray and Richard invited myself and Postie to a practise Nine Years War game using the “Beneath the Lily Banners” rules they’re using for the period/project they are doing between them!Now I’ve been mildly criticised by Ray and Richard for not expressin…
Myself and fellow Reject, Gentleman Richard decided in inflict a game of Beneath the Lily Banner 2 on two other Rejects, Postie and Fran. Postie’s played before but Fran’s a BLB virgin.The ScenarioBoth Luxembourg and William I…
In 1685, James II was compelled to add new regiments ofhorse and foot to those already in being, to deal with Monmouth’s rebellion.Under the date of 20 June 1685, a commission was issued to Major General JohnGranville, Earl of Bath, for the raising o…
Ray is not going taking Tim’s bid for 2nd idly and so sends in this unit of Nine Years War foot representing the Earl of Bath’s Regiment (later to be the 10th Foot).These are 15mm Essex castings and I assume the flags were created by Ray himself, thoug…
The Gardes du Corps were raised on 30 April 1599 as a Troop of Horse. In 1665 it was redesignated as Gardes du Corps van Zijne Majesteit. The corps was in English pay between 21 December 1688 and 25 March 1699; in the Dutch Republic it was maintained b…
I wanted to add, that little something extra to my NYW/Grand Alliance army, these are not really needed for Beneath the Lilly Banners ruleset, but I wanted some anyway!! Unfortunately Essex minis don’t make any figures lik…
Francois du Cambon had been a French engineer officer until 1685 when the Revocation of the Edit of Nantes obliged him to seek employment overseas. On 21 August 1688 he was appointed as William of Orange’s Chief Engineer and Director Gen…
Trying to find info about this unit has proved very difficult!!They was raised in 1685 as The Earl of Shrewsbury’s Horse, then was led and known as, Langsdale’s Horse in 1687, Hamilton’s Horse from 1687-88, then John Coy’s Horse from 1688-91. In 1691 t…
Ray sends in these three regiments of late 17th century Huguenot foot that are for his Nine Years War collection.The regiment with the blue flag is le Caillemotte, the black is de Meloniere and the green is the Regiment du Cambon. These are 15mm E…
There’s been a lot of discussion recently on Huguenots flags and uniforms on the League of Augsburg Forum . Clarence is or has made a big selection of flags for the Battle of The Boyne, including Danish, Dutch, English, Irish and&nb…
For my last post of the year, I’m going back to last week when Richard and myself met up for another test game of Beneath the Lily Banners 2. We made a few mistakes in our first game and posted some questions on the League of Augsberg site, after …
Today’s recently painted are once again for my Nine Years War project, they are two squadrons of the Dutch Horse regiment No 21 Ginkel. They were raised on the 14th January 1625 and maintained by the province of Utrecht. Godard van Reede, heer van…
Once again the figures are from Essex (I really should have shares in Essex minis??) bases are from Warbases and if so inclined you can download the flags from one of my earlier posts, here!!Clifton’s regiment was the last one raised in 1685. Sir Willi…
Back in September I asked you all for comments on how to paint up the Danish foot regt Prince George, I’m very pleased most of you agreed with me in saying, how I damn well liked!!!It may well be wrong, they most probably wore the grey coat cuffed oran…
La Couronne As some of you may know I’ve been painting up an Allied army for a Nine Years War game, while my pal Richard has been painting up the French. We finally had enough troops to play what we thought was small test game a couple of ev…
I’ve still not decided what way to paint Prince George’s regt, I’m still leaning towards the green, cuffed orange I’m afraid. While the idea was ticking away in my noggin I knocked up the three flags in this post. The three flags appear in the Sapherso…
Morning Campers!! I’m in a bit of a dilemma, I know I said in one of my last posts I was going to paint up two more Dutch units for my NYW army, but you know what’s its like for us gamers…………….My plan is to paint up four Dutch and f…
In 1688 a third regiment of Foot Guards were added to the English establishment, (this was not the later Scots Guards as they were still on the Scottish establishment). The Garde te Voet formed the backbone of William III’s invasion force of 1688, &nbs…
As some of you may know I’m painting up an Allied army for The Nine Years War/War of the Grand Alliance/League of Augsberg, my pal and fellow Reject, Richard is painting up the French army.Now Richard has come up with every excuse under the sun as…
The last four of my Nine Years War Generals is the subject of this post.The first base represents Count Walrad de Nassau-Usingen, but is better known as Walrad de Nassau-Saarbrucken. During the War of the League of Augsburg,&n…