This, my hearties, is my coatee - the uniform jacket I am supposed to wear on parade and for battle. I don’t want to complain, but I’ve been dragging it around Europe for years now and
as you can see, it’s threadbare, patched and almost coming apart at the seams. It’s about time the good King […]
It’s been a bit quiet around here lately, because I got sidetracked by having too many things to do. First of all, I was on vacation in Jordan for 10 days, making my way from North to South along the country and visiting most of the major tourist sites. It is a fascinating country in […]
Ever since we found the correct measurements for a Haversack that would be issued to a British Soldier in the late Napoleonic era in Soldiers’ Accoutrements of the British Army 1750-1900, DH has been bugging me to make one.
Actually, Napoleonic soldiers’ haversacks are not too complicated to make. They consist of a large piece that […]
We took a friend to the Panzermuseum in Munster yesterday, and on the way back we also went to Brunswick to look at the Napoleonic period items in the Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum. Apart from the uniform of the Black Duke which you’d somehow expect to be presented there we also found some other things that will […]