Napoleonic Hanoverian Line Infantry Regiment plastic boxed set sarissa After years of fighting in

After years of fighting in North Africa and the Far East the British Army set foot back in Europe with the invasion of Sicily and Italy

Each pair consisted of an older erastês (ἐραστής

an elite force of light cavalry and infantry designed for independent operations

sporting a heavy howitzer in its distinctive boxed shaped turret

Napoleonic Hanoverian Line Infantry Regiment plastic boxed set sarissa After years of fighting inThe Duke of Wellingtons armies of the Napoleonic Wars were built from troops of all manner of nations and principalities, whom on the whole were British officered and trained, and who fought very well alongside their British comrades. The Hanoverian troops were, of course, German. They joined up in the British army to carry on the fight against Napoleon, the tyrant of the continent, when so many of their German cousins elected to fight for Bonaparte.