which just so happened to be a very nice looking sledge driven by remnants
of the 23rd/24th Chasseurs a Cheval.
Its taken an age but I've finally completed the unit and made and painted the other 3 sledges.
The delays firstly was the Perry's fault as one of the Sledges was out of stock for quite some time.
And then it was me, trying to find the time!
I must admit, I'm quite chuffed with the results.
"During the Retreat from Moscow, Colonel Marbot seeing that
his regiment, the 23rd Chasseurs a Cheval, was falling apart,
decided to dismount them, use their remaining horses to pull two-man peasant
sledges easily found in local villages. The 23rd formed up with the
24th Chasseurs a Cheval to create a sledge born brigade. At night
these formed squares which were frequently used by Marshal Ney and General
Maison for shelter. Each man was ordered to have two muskets to enable them to
resist attacks with ‘the liveliest musketry"
from Perry Miniatures website.
I asked Martin from Warbases to make me some special sized pill shaped bases, to match in with the pill bases me and Lee used for our cavalry bases.
Each sledge comes with 4 heads, so can swap them over and make each look a little different.
It was guess work putting them together, until I found this page on TMP.
Which shows how they're supposed to be built. My first Sledge looks nothing like this, as I hadn't a clue how to put it together!
So there we go an 8 man team of 4 Sledges to hold off those damn Cossacks!!!
