The Allied Army

My work on the Allied army continues.  In planning ahead, I have given thought to those units I intend to represent and those I will leave out.  I simply don't have time to do every battalion in the Army, so I have decided to reflect some of the more famous ones and leave others out.

Listed below are the Allied units at Waterloo.  In green, are those that are done; in orange, those that are partly done and in red, those I don't intend to do.

Some will be single battalion squares with a 25 man frontage in four ranks making about 400 men per square.  Some will be double battalion squares.  Others will be in the various farms.  And some will be in line (for instance, 5 KGL).

43 battalions in total will be shown - about 16,000 infantry.  I have finished 12 this year, so it should take another three years. .......But then there are the French and Prussians, which should see me through until I kick the bucket!

Maitland

2nd Battalion, 1st Foot Guards

3rd Battalion, 1st Foot Guards

Byng

2nd Battalion, Coldstream Guards

2nd Battalion, 3rd Scots Guards

Foot Guards Light Companies

Colin Halkett

2nd Battalion, 73rd Regiment of Foot

2nd Battalion, 30th (Cambridgeshire) Regiment of Foot

33rd (1st Yorkshire West Riding) Regiment of Foot

69th (South Lincolnshire) Regiment of Foot

Ompteda

1st Light Battalion

2nd Light Battalion

5th Line Battalion KGL

8th Line Battalion KGL

Kielmannsegge

Field Battalion Bremen

Field Battalion Verden

Field Battalion 1st Duke of York's Osnabruck

Light Battalion Grubenhagen

Light Battalion Lüneburg

Field Jaeger Battalion (two companies)

Bijlandt

27th Light Battalion

7th Line Battalion

5th National Militia Battalion

7th National Militia Battalion

8th National Militia Battalion

Saxe-Weimar

1st/2nd Nassau Battalion

2nd/2nd Nassau Battalion

3rd/2nd Nassau Battalion

28th Regiment, Orange-Nassau

1st Battalion

2nd Battalion

Volunteer Jager Company

Chasse

35th Light Battalion

2nd Line Battalion

4th National Militia Battalion

6th National Militia Battalion

17th National Militia Battalion

19th National Militia Battalion

36th Light Battalion

3rd Line Battalion

12th Line Battalion

13th Line Battalion

3rd National Militia Battalion

10th National Militia Battalion

Adam

52nd (Oxfordshire) Regiment of Foot

71st HLI

2nd Battalion, 95th Regiment of Foot (Rifles)

3rd Battalion, 95th Regiment of Foot (Rifles), 2 companies

Du Plat

1st Line Battalion KGL

2nd Line Battalion KGL

3rd Line Battalion KGL

4th Line Battalion KGL

Hugh Halkett

Landwehr Battalion Bremervörde

Landwehr Battalion 2nd Duke of York's (Osnabrück)

Landwehr Battalion 3rd Duke of York's (Quackenbrück)

Landwehr Battalion Salzgitter

Mitchell

3rd Battalion, 14th (Buckinghamshire) Regiment of Foot

1st Battalalion 23rd RWF

51st (2nd Yorkshire West Riding) Regiment of Foot

Kempt

1st Battalion, 28th (North Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot

1st Battalion, 32nd (Cornwall) Regiment of Foot

79th Regiment of Foot (Cameron Highlanders)

1st Battalion, 95th Regiment of Foot (Rifles)

Pack

3rd Battalion, 1st Royal Scots

42nd Royal Highlanders

2nd Battalion, 44th (East Essex) Regiment of Foot

92nd Gordon Highlanders

Vincke

Landwehr Battalion Gifhorn

Landwehr Battalion Hameln

Landwehr Battalion Hildesheim

Landwehr Battalion Peine

Lambert

1st Battalion, 4th (King's Own) Regiment of Foot

1st Battalion, 27th (Enniskillen) Regiment of Foot

2nd Battalion, 40th (2nd Somersetshire) Regiment of Foot

Best

Landwehr Battalion Lüneburg

Landwehr Battalion Munden

Landwehr Battalion Osterode

Landwehr Battalion Verden

Brunswick

Brunswick Advance Guard

Brunswick Guard Battalion

Brunswick 1st Light Infantry Battalion

Brunswick 2nd Light Infantry Battalion

Brunswick 3rd Light Infantry Battalion

Brunswick 1st Line Battalion

Brunswick 2nd Line Battalion

Brunswick 3rd Line Battalion

Kruse

1st Battalion 1st Nassau Regiment

2nd Battalion 1st Nassau Regiment

3rd Battalion 1st Nassau Regiment

4th King's Own Regiment of Foot

1/4th King's Own was in Lambert's Brigade and been hurriedly returned from the United States where the Battalion had taken part in the War of 1812 - there the 4th suffered the loss of half its number at the Battle of New Orleans.  Soon after this they sailed for home.  The depleted battalion was reinforced from the second battalion and sent straight to Flanders to join Wellington's Army.

Lt Col Francis Brooke commanded the 4th.  The battalion did not see action at Quatre Bras and began the battle of Waterloo in reserve.  They were brought up to the front line just to the north east of La Haye Sainte.  The 4th suffered 12 killed and 122 wounded.  The regiments stayed in France until 1818 as part of the army of occupation.

I try to size my figures by different makes within the 20mm bracket.  The last square of Nassauers was mostly of the slimmer Hat type, this lot are largely the chunkier Airfix set, with various Les Higgins, quite a few Qualicast, Italieri, some Hagen and the odd S Range.  As ever, the front rank contains quite a few conversions.

Shako Plate

Inside of the square

This lot are mostly Airfix

The three staff officers are Hagen

A Les Higgins among the Airfix

A Strelets officer addresses the other officers

The drummers are S Range, Qualicast and Kennington

The Colour Party are Qualicast

A Great War conversion

Ten squares down, quite a few to go!

1/1st Nassau

I haven't posted for a while, having been busy with work.  My next square has been an enjoyable departure from the usual redcoats.

The Nassau contingent at Waterloo consisted of three regiments, two of which were in the Nassau service (1st and 2nd Line) and the Orange-Nassau Regiment which was officially in the Dutch service.  Nassauers fought across the battlefield.  The 1st Regiment fought in the centre of the Anglo-Dutch position under Colonel Kruse.

Colonel Augustus Kruse

The 2nd Regiment and the Orange-Nassau regiment fought on the Allied left holding the farms of Papelotte, Fischermont and La Haye.  The 2nd Regiment detached its flank companies to the other side of the battle at Hougoumont and the 1st Regiment sent a light company to La Haye Sainte.

Having been part of the Grand Army until 1813 when they defected to Wellington in the Peninsula, the Nassauers were organised along French lines and had a French cut to their green uniforms.

The Nassauers wore white covers to their shakos, but this attracted French fire so Kruse ordered them to take them off - this battalion is shown after the order was given revealing the black shakos underneath.

This close up from the Waterloo panorama shows how desperate the fight around the Nassau squares became.

The figures shown here are largely from the Hat Industrie sets, padded out with French infantry by Emhar and some conversions (largely in the front kneeling rank).

The standing soldier in the corner is War of Independence

Two W1815 officers

An Art Miniaturen Austrian converted to be Colonel Kruse

A Franznap Drum Major

A Franznap Pioneer (a Neopolitan coopted into Nassau uniform)

Grenadier Company - their red epaulettes and colpack plumes stand out against the green, yellow and buff of the line companies

Centre Company

ACW Conversion as Ensign

Close Up