Bonnets pack polish-army

Bonnets pack polish-armyThese knitted bonnets were the trademark piece of headgear for the Scottish soldiers throughout the 17th Century and beyond. Cheap to make , but waterproof and warm the blue bonnets were used by all covenantors or government armies in our period. Some were also issued to Royalist Northern troops, eg Newcastles troops, though wearing the same hats as your enemies cannot always be a good thing. They were almost always blue and sometimes as here, have a

450 to 323 BC (from the start of the first Peloponnesian War to the death of Alexander the Great)

Deployed in Normany in 1944

Their role was not glamorous

These troops would ensure the horses were sheltered from fire and prepared for swift mount up

the French army could field 2000 British 3”mortars

officers and trumpeters were bedecked with extra trim

Models supplied unassembled and unpainted

They would quite possibly be formed by young gentlemen and were highly skilled in swordplay

using the Kontos

No bases included

16 plastic firelock musketeers

the good old 3” mortar was brought into action lobbing its lethal shells high before whistling down to spray shrapnel on those not able to find cover in time