Comments on: Saxon Army Resources

By: Martin

Martin — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:00:35 +0000

Hi Ged – great to meet you too. I’ll send you e-mail to continue the conversation we started on Sunday.

By: ged/GJM FIGURINES

ged/GJM FIGURINES — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 09:16:10 +0000

Martin

good to meet you and Peter at Colours enjoyed our chat

BTW

the saxons should have won but hey second is good….

can you contact me on gjm.figurines@btinternet.com

regards

Ged

GJM FIGURINES

By: von Peter himself

von Peter himself — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 12:01:56 +0000

Good man Grahame! 8O)

Salute
von Peter himself

By: Grahame

Grahame — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 08:55:38 +0000

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

Right then…

consider them corrected.

By: Martin

Martin — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 13:25:23 +0000

Andrew: thanks for the observation about flags. I think a quick e-mail to Grahame is in order…

By: von Peter himself

von Peter himself — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:54:13 +0000

Very interesting and useful information. I imagine one original error has been replicated over and over.

I hope Grahame Black at GMB Designs has his obverses and reverses sorted as this is where I hope to be sourcing my Saxon flags from. I have been pestering Graham for these Saxon flags for literally years and they have been on his to do list for a long time. I believe that the intricacies of the borders etc were a little intimidating!! 8O)

Not only will the Calpe Saxon releases gives us Saxons but hopefully also mean the arrival of some of the GMB Designs masterpieces of flags for them as well.

Salute
von Peter himself

By: Andrew Brentnall

Andrew Brentnall — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 12:48:28 +0000

The Napoleon Series Site is a wonderful source, but I would like to point out an error in Part V Colours and Standards. It occurs in a number of other sources as well, but I hope people will not mind if I try and correct it and give my sources. The obverse and reverse of the infantry colours are the wrong way around. Those of the cavalry are the right way around, but unfortunately the obverse (the second of the two illustrations) is title reverse (as is the first illustration). The German Army Museum in Dresden has an unrivalled collection of material on the Saxon Flags, including 3 infantry and a number of cavalry of this period, and all of the infantry flags covering the subsequent period 1820-1871. All have the Royal arms on the obverse (with the pole to the left) and the royal monogram on the reverse (with the pole to the right). I have seen a number of these in the flesh, and can vouch for the accuracy. There is also a colour illustrated booklet, produced by the Saxon Military History circle which includes colour photographs of all the existing ones to confirm this arrangement. Also “Sachsische Fahnen und Standarten” written by J Hottenroth in Dresden in 1910 confirms this. I do not know when the unfortunate inversion so common in wargames flags was first introduced, but it would be great if we could restore The Royal Saxon arms to the appropriate side of our flags!

Regards from Mons

Andrew Brentnall

By: Rafa Pardo

Rafa Pardo — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 15:40:20 +0000

Sorry for the bad link above Battle of Kalisz Rafa

By: Rafa Pardo

Rafa Pardo — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 15:37:38 +0000

Hi Not a resource but an AAR about a wargaming re-fight of the battle of Kalisz (february 1813), the lasy battle of the Russian campaign or the first of the 1813 campaign as you prefer. The Saxons fought well but the feeble reunier and the Penal french regiments do not were match for the pursuing Russian. See the narrative and the pictures at my web-site Battle of Kalisz Regards from Spain Rafa Project Leipzig (1813) Wargaming with Napoleonic Miniatures

By: Rafa Pardo

Rafa Pardo — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 17:38:50 +0000

Hi I am building a 1813 Saxon contingent in plastic (20mm) to be used in a wargaming replay of the Campaign of Leipzig (fall 1813). I have used all almost all the cited sources as well as uniformology information from Knotel or Fucken The full history is at my blog and (more extended) in my web site Regards from Spain Rafa