One of the many reasons I have not blogged overmuch lately is that I have been finishing the above title for publication in July of this year. So am now a bit pleased as I have been given the go-ahead to let chaps know it is coming more details here.
The subject is one that has fascinate me for years and started with the question of what was going on in the rest of India while the British were nibbling around the edges.... well here issome of it.
Looking forward to it. A fascinating subject with lots of interesting characters.
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ReplyDeleteAndy, Yup, looking forward to this already. The big battles that won India for the Empire are hidden gems for wargamers. Hopefully your sources will almost as interesting as the main body (they will of course)
ReplyDeleteNot stricly about the "battles that won India"- though they are part of the story but about the other battles that were going on at the time - and the army that fought them - which eventually ended up fighting the British of course .
DeleteI've received and read your magnificent book , full of many detail and precise researches. A very good book indeed.
ReplyDeleteThere's one thing that puzzle me. Could you explain why you concluded that all the booigne's brigades regulard were clad in red. The drawing of the battle of lakheiri in the Japiur Museum give red only to perron and de Boigne and no color (so white..) to the troopers. Accounts from the battle of Assaye insist also on white lines.. We know that Sombre's were clad in blue... Do you think it's impossible to think that brigades had difterent colors ? Another portrait of De boigne show a green flag with a white cross of Savoy in the background. Behind him there's one of his persian cavlary guard (clad in green and red as in your book). This flag might be: 1 cavalry flag 2 De Boigne personnal flag.
I'm sorry to annoy you with these question, but, as you, this subject passionnate me and i Thnak you deeply for this fabulous work you've done (with the reproduciton of ferdinand smith sketches of 1806 ). Bravo !
Just found this- the red coats come from 3 distinct sources L.F Smith - who describes the uniforms of both the Telinga and Najib battalions, the Poona correspondence which gives a British resident as saying ' their sepoys are on the model of ours' and of course Charles Metcalf who says specifically in 1802 that the uniforms of Perrons sepoys were the same as the company's- all the sources are noted in the book. This does not mean that sepoys of non army of Hindustan units wore red .
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