Thursday 10 March 2011

Recently painted No 17 - Johnson's Kentucky Mounted Volunteers 1812

Under the command of "Old Tippecanoe" William Henry Harrison, a Kentucky regiment of mounted riflemen led by Colonel Richard M. Johnson marched one hundred miles to conquer General Henry A. Proctor's British Regulars at Ontario, Canada, in the Battle of Thames on October 5, 1813. William Henry Harrison, at the time territorial governor of Indiana, received his commission as a Major General of the Kentucky Militia from the Kentucky General Assembly. Richard M. Johnson is credited with killing the great Indian war chief Tecumseh during the battle, he would go on to serve as Vice-President of the United States (1837-1841) under President Martin Van Buren.  The figures are from Minifigs painted for Posties collection by my good self. Hope you like them!!



16 comments:

  1. Nice painting Ray and good information.

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  2. Tiny!!! Well painted mate...a nice little formation
    Cheers
    Paul

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  3. Well done. Is a small army already!

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  4. Interesting unit. I like them!

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  5. Great stuff. An unusal unit.

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  6. Cheers for the comments guys!!

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  7. Great paint job. I like the variety of the horses and these are very cleanly detailed.

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  8. Nice painting as always. Like the bases by the way... good basing makes a model.

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  9. Great "little" unit Ray ;-)

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  10. Great job, it looks amazing.

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  11. fuck year the cavalry is here!

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  12. Tippecanoe itself is about an hour southeast of Chicago and worth a couple hours' stop off the interstate.

    It was that same Tecumseh mentioned here who placed the zero-year curse on American Presidents, which worked on WH Harrison himself first, several others such as JFK, and most recently on Reagan. So far.

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  13. Very interesting?? I've not heard of that curse, I'll google it to find out more. Wonder who's next??
    Cheers
    Ray

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